Nathan Barry

One thing that I'm worried about is AI taking out the bottom rung of every career ladder.

Because if you think about maybe a partner at a law firm isn't going to be replaced by AI, but the junior associates are.

The beginner web designer...

Well, you know, Cursor and Replit and all these, pretty good at doing that.

And so you have these experts at the top of their careers wielding AI to do like 10 times what they could possibly before and no longer needing the junior associates and whatever else.

And they have all the...

expertise and discernment to know, oh, this is great output, this is not.

But I worry that if AI eliminates the bottom rungs of all of these jobs, then no one's learning how to do that.

I was talking to a friend of a friend who's a college professor, and he was saying he allows everyone to use AI in the classroom, writing papers, all of that.

He has no problem with that because that's the future.

That's what's expected.

The problem that he has is that no one's doing the reading anymore.

And so instead of reading this literature or these great works or all these other things that you could really learn from and build taste, now everyone's just saying, hey, Chad, what's the summary of this book?

Okay, cool.

Now I can do this thing.

And so I'm worried about what happens if in 15 years, no one has a sense of taste and style and all of that.

And really these fundamental skills.

And so if we can get all the benefits from AI and really learn the taste and the wisdom and the skills necessary for that world, I think we're going to be in great shape.

If we continue to eliminate the bottom rungs and the next generation doesn't learn all these core things, then I think we've got a serious problem.

Actually read the books.