Oly Sourbut

They're developing the skills that they then become more fluent in, which enable them to then take the more expansive tasks on and so on.

And there's this kind of progression of apprenticeship and mastery.

And this happens in all kinds of domains and disciplines.

And we're now entering the regime where the more seniors and more experienced people can actually, instead of delegating to this apprentice, who's going to take many years or whatever months to train, they can just delegate some of these tasks to AI.

They themselves have been sort of augmented and elevated in this way.

They now have an army of apprentices.

But now the human apprentices are kind of not on that ladder that's enabling them to train.

to develop whatever it is in that discipline which they need to become a master, which can include, you know, these skills, these kind of drills almost, but it can also include, to some extent, it can include networking as well, which is just, you know, as a part of people's context, isn't it?

So that's one kind of pernicious thing here, which is a little bit of a tangent from what you asked, but I think this happens at the societal level as well.

And then there's at the individual level where people's skills are kind of eroding because...

there's a feeling I've noticed in myself a few times recently where I'm like, Oh, I'm sure that like this thing I'm trying to write, like I'm pretty sure, you know, Claude or Gemini, whatever could write this.

And there's this kind of urge to maybe go do that.

And I've tried it a few times, but for me, I tend to find that producing the actual content, it's,

still preferable to be primarily doing that myself, even if I'm quite heavily making use of AI tools for kind of giving me extra context and research and so on.

There's interesting findings in both directions for coding, actually.

So I've used some of these tools myself.

I'm a bit behind the times myself, so I'm kind of interested to try the latest and greatest.

But certainly what I found was that as a kind of enriched autocomplete, it can be very useful.

You can move a lot faster, actually, because you know what it is that you're about to produce,

And if you're able to kind of describe that in a comment or if there's some kind of preceding context which kind of makes it obvious, there's so much code which is kind of boilerplate.