Notes on AI
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Notes on AI 〰️
Three years to ten days
Thomas Knoll needed about three years to get Photoshop to version 1.0. A single developer just rebuilt seven Creative Cloud tools in ten days, and HSBC downgraded Adobe the same week. I built a small app of my own in an hour. Craftspeople have always made their tools – the hurdle just collapsed.
The tools just became universal – curiosity didn't
Leonardo's imagination ran centuries ahead of anything available to execute it. With AI, our limit is the exact inverse: we can build almost anything now. But breadth was never what made Leonardo Leonardo. The skills were downstream of the curiosity. Never the other way around.
The right to burn out
An Anthropic study shows how rarely AI's potential is actually used. The obvious explanation is fear of looking replaceable. A business psychologist offers an uncomfortable alternative: we are addicted to our own overload. The real question isn't whether AI can be creative. It's whether we still are.