This has not been my experience with AI.

And one of the chief complaints about AI is that it is fundamentally an interpolation engine, which is to say uncreative.

At this time we still need to steer it, which is what the discussion about "taste" is about.

Though I suppose we'll need better terms for various kinds of "taste" soon enough if it's to become economically trackable.

Walk me through that a bit. I’ve used codex to solve dozens of niggling annoyances around the house and in my life. That gave me more control and increased my ability to express my creativity.

At work, it enabled me to develop two apps, one complete (as much as they ever are), one nearing the end of technical PoC phase, and a handful of others where I could quickly answer a tech feasibility question.

The completed app is an interactive web app that I literally could not have completed to that level of polish (and from a pacing perspective probably couldn’t have completed at all).

All of those increased my control and most increased my ability to express creativity.

The upcoming technical PoC will involve considering using Clojure in a load-bearing app, something that I’ve considered and consistently rejected for over a decade now. If that happens, control and creativity will spike as well.

Is there some aspect of this removal that I’m not seeing? It changes the activities of the tasks, for sure, but very far from that all being for the worse; a lot of it is way better.