Doomprompting is the new doomscrolling

That's the title of a fantastic blog post by Anu A. (link in the comments). The snapshot from jack friks is from the post and I included it because I can relate soooooo much.

Another nugget comes from a link to Balaji Srinivasan's blog: "AI moves all costs to prompting and verifying. Basically, today’s AI only does tasks middle-to-middle, not end-to-end. So all the business expenditure migrates towards the edges of prompting and verifying, even as AI speeds up the middle."

I'll leave with this one quote from the post: it is to me the best articulation yet of why outsourcing your hard thinking to a machine is a slippery slope that leads to whatever is the opposite of fulfillment.

"You think you'll be the water lily that remains untouched by the dirty water, but you won't. Because creation isn't just about output; it's a process of becoming. The best work shapes the maker as much as the audience. The goal is to make something heavy, something with weight earned through genuine effort."

“You also need to know how to do something before you know what to outsource to other people or tools. The best human-AI collaboration requires humans who could do the work themselves but choose strategic assistance at little expense to their core craft. When we outsource before developing judgment, we become dependent without ever becoming discerning. Taste is discernment expressed.”