People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age

Posted by paulpauper |2 hours ago |4 comments

teekert an hour ago[1 more]

I like reading this, because I love focusing and getting stuff done and vibing with AI in the past has left me feeling exhausted and dirty, like I don't deserve the thing I build. (Btw I'm also an expert at procrastinating! I really need to get into the flow and that is hard but rewarding.)

But recently I have been building a Django app that is all about the data model and with complicated RBAC, and I've been discussing a lot, and I mean a lot, like pages and pages of text back and forth, with Claude code (yes code because I do ask it for the occasional edit, most is done by me).

Claude walks me through things, shows me ups and downs of my plans, points at my flaws in thinking, points at where the huge preliminary text in a docstring does not match what I implemented. And I enjoy it! I'm learning, the picture is getting clearer and I feel good about what I'm building. I feel confident that it is correct and good!

Related are these two comments I made earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743028

Avicebron 2 hours ago

https://archive.is/4slNQ

paulpauper an hour ago

In other words, what will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.

Yeah, so smarter people? A smart person will quickly whip up a solution with AI, and use AI optimally, as I have observed online. It's already smart people with math degrees who are using AI to create proofs. Ordinary, non-math people are not doing this. I think it's more like AI magnifies the talents of already talented people.