Ethan Mollick

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Strange Loop Podcast · Ethan Mollick | The long way is the shortcut: experiments over AI playbooks · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

But you don't want everything artisanal.

I don't want artisanal code.

I'd like the code written so it executes the way I want it to.

But I think you're going to see pushes for authenticity.

But also, if you like reading the piece, you like reading the piece, right?

So part of what is interesting about AI writing, just in a very specific way, is that it often depends on you putting the effort in as a reader.

So GPT 5.5, especially the GPT series, has been famous for these very stretched metaphors, right?

Like, you know, like our conversation is like, you know, a gap tooth smile, right?

And that doesn't have any meaning, but we can assign meaning to it, and that can feel meaningful to us.

So the question is, are we okay with our own interpretation of meaning, or are we going to ask the AI to have a super interpretation of this stuff, or are we going to want humans to write these things?

I don't really know the answer to that yet.

I mean, I do it all the time anyway, right?

I mean, I can get lots of digital art if I want to get it, and I do pay attention to those kind of things.

But I think, again, it's going to be kind of a mixed bag in some ways.

Like, if you get personalized entertainment that's written for you or a story that you've never seen before, maybe that's good enough, right?

Because you're not going to commission an artist to do that work.

So I think it's going to be like everything else.

There's always push and pull in art between mechanical reproduction and the human element, and we'll have some sort of tension and compromise.

Yes.

So it was a way to try and talk about agents and the fact that agents are somewhat inexplicable.

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