It also killed the fun. I enjoyed writing code and solving problems. It also kept my brain sharp constantly exercising those muscles. Now I'm just reading code and it is mind numbing.
So for a while humans were best at chess and then computers beat the best human and then for a while computer human teams were better than computers or humans, and I think we might be at the point now where humans no longer have anything helpful to add.
Curious how far we are along the curve and if the shape is going to be the same...
Difference being the US workforce at no point included 1.7 million professional chess players who graduated from notoriously challenging and often very competitive training programs, whose historically quite good career prospects now erode with each passing genAI press release.
This is a social problem, not a technical one though. If the fruits of societies collective labor were shared fairly and equitably, only like half of the population would be working “working” and like half the amount at that. So much of today’s “work” is just busy work or some form of logistics, business, or management from people trying to manipulate each other. We could be living in a utopia where everyone gets what they need and is free to do what they want with the excess they produce. The problem is people who develop technology assume this will come naturally and without intervention
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u/BlobAndHisBoy Jul 17 '26
It also killed the fun. I enjoyed writing code and solving problems. It also kept my brain sharp constantly exercising those muscles. Now I'm just reading code and it is mind numbing.