most of the recent AI takes I’ve seen on my timeline are surface level bullshit
so here’s some real thoughts
- the real risk of moving this fast isn’t just burnout… it’s that you’ve been trained to believe you have to keep up with all of this. and you don’t. the people who pick one or a few lanes and go deeper than everyone else trying to do everything will dominate
- the danger isn’t just AI taking your job. it’s AI quietly taking over your thinking. outsource enough small judgments and one day you can’t tell which thoughts are still yours. protect that brain and your muscle memory, don’t just optimize your time.
- AI dropped the cost of getting info to zero, but it did nothing to the cost of turning information into judgment. that gap is where critical thinkers will excel because they can ultimately tell when models are lying or misbehaving. and if you can’t do that, you’ll be the victim of misinformation and very easy to control.
- the permanent underclass won’t just be people who don’t know how to use AI. it’ll be the people without access to the best models or the expertise to set up their own local system to compete. everyone will have a system. it’ll be the people who never built the skills to know what to point themselves at that will struggle. and that’s why AI early adopters are outperforming peers.
- the free tiers and resets aren’t corporate generosity. they’re performing customer acquisition for a monopoly that hasn’t finished forming. the day one of them truly wins, the costs will be more than the days you’re seeing now. AGI isn’t gonna be cheap. keep your prompts, data, and workflows portable while it’s still affordable to.
- open source isn’t an ideology, it’s optionality. the main leverage you hold over a lab is the ability to walk to your own setup when they limit or ration you.
- the trap nobody tells you: to get real value from AI you have to feed it your edge. but the scary part, the better AI gets and the more you feed it, the less that edge of yours is worth. you don’t win by hoarding info though. you win by outshipping your peers before these models learn from you and devalue your expertise
- drink more water… a NHANES study found roughly 1/3 of US adults are inadequately hydrated… the most advanced tech in the world is useless if your brain is running on an empty tank. drink more water.
- walk 10,000+ steps a day. you have absolutely no excuse when you have the ability to use these models and code on mobile or via voice. there’s no point in becoming an AI master if your body deteriorates over time.
- AI will be here for years. the scarcest resource isn’t actually compute. it’s ensuring you have a clear, rested body and mind to point at all these systems or to know when something’s fishy.
so make sure you keep that mind right.
Reminder: most suggestions you’ll read about “killer prompts to use with Fable” are not good for Fable.
Anthropic published a guide for how different prompting is with their new token torching model:
https://t.co/eiWpT0VfjN
Still exploring the possibilities
GPT Image Gen V2 +Lightroom.
Photorealistic ancient Chinese wuxia film still.
Extreme close up, face filling most of the frame, three quarter angle,
subject turned back toward the lens over the shoulder.
85mm equivalent, f/1.8, shallow depth of field, background dissolved to bokeh.
ISO 1600, night, available moonlight.
Night snowstorm. Cold blue grey moonlight rakes across the face from
front left. A single warm amber lantern glows deep in the background.
Falling snow caught mid-air, soft and out of focus.
East Asian adult woman, late 20s. Defined mature facial structure,
high cheekbones, strong straight brow, adult jawline.
Wet black hair frozen into separated frost-stiffened strands, loose strands
plastered across the forehead and one cheek, the rest pulled into a topknot
held by a pale carved hairpin. Snow and ice crystals on the eyelashes and brows.
Skin cold-flushed across the nose, cheekbones, and ear, visible pore texture
and fine peach fuzz catching the rim light, a sheen of melting snow.
Dark eyes, hard direct gaze into the lens. Lips slightly parted, cold reddened.
She grips a drawn straight sword vertically close to the body, bare knuckles
tight on the wrapped hilt, the steel catching a thin line of moonlight.
Dark indigo and black layered hanfu robe, snow gathered on the shoulders
and collar, the heavy fabric wet at the edges.
Background: snow-covered stone fortress wall and a carved stone lantern,
fully dissolved into soft bokeh, deep night blue, the warm lantern the only
warm point in the frame.
Fine skin and frost micro-detail, natural film grain, cold shadows with a
single warm highlight accent.
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