Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez>
Whatever you believe about what the Right Thing should be, you can't control it by refusing what is happening right now. Skipping AI is not going to help you or your career. Think about it. Test these new tools, with care, with weeks of work, not in a five minutes test where you can just reinforce your own beliefs. Find a way to multiply yourself, and if it does not work for you, try again every few months.

This hits exactly what I tried to capture in On Continuums, Tools, and Progress. Antirez is right: testing these tools carefully matters way more than either dismissing them wholesale or expecting them to solve everything. The economics will shift. The tools are what remain.

Innovation can't be taken back after all.

Indeed.


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