Azeem Azhar

at being able to work their way through certain classes of crystallized problems.

But I think that means that right now they're not very good at doing the thing that makes the writing good.

I say right now because the LLMs, of course, aren't just LLMs now.

There's lots of other things going on in these systems to make them perform and make them be much, much more reliable.

So we don't know if that frontier doesn't get crossed.

What I have learned, of course, is that they can identify golden threads and they can analyze writing styles, but they can't write good quality paragraphs.

And one of the challenges, of course, if you are someone who is delivering what I'm doing now, which is like an expensive, authentic experience, I'm spending an hour of my time, you are all graciously giving me an hour of your time.

We have to work with LLMs.

We have to work with the best tools available.

Otherwise, we just can't cope with the demands of the work.

But it's that hard human work, the work with your pen.

Where's my pen gone?

Here it is.

You'll know my lovely bronze fountain pen that doesn't have the ink reservoir in it.

That work with the pen, the work of observing the world around you, of reading different things, the effort that you put in, that becomes a differentiator.

And I think the funny thing that's the funny parallel is that that's also what made Bitcoin valuable, right?

It was the proof of work that made Bitcoin valuable.

It's a proof of work that makes the authenticity valuable because we did the thing that John Kennedy called the hard thing.

And what I'm doing is I'm putting my attention and my taste and my experience into the output.

So where do I think value goes in that world?