alt Hacker NewsOur brains are hard-wired to enjoy (at least in the short term) immediate gratification, and the removal of friction. It's a hard battle to fight.
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Imagine if you will two product proposals coming across Dario's desk.
One is:
1) Complex IDE integration where our AI model is called to assist users in making decisions, assisting them to do the things they already intended to do. It appears more as a function of the IDE rather than something separate. It shows off the intelligence of the model but doesn't show off any autonomy.
2) A separate tool that can be branded Anthropic. It takes over completely. It advances the narrative that we've already been spreading that AI is going to make some human jobs obsolete. It looks to employers (the actual people who spend money) like it replaces an expensive developer even if at first it requires one. It has minimal to no integration point.
Which do you think they'll approve. I think it has less to do with the user motivation and more with the producer's.
Have you ever asked a long distance runner how are they feeling during a run?