Steam, steel, and infinite minds by Ivan Zhao

We want humans to supervise the loops from a leveraged point, not be in them.

This is a very straightforward take on AI and how it is, and how it should be utilized in modern work.

However this is where I can't help but wonder how are we going to go around this:

The weekly two-hour alignment meeting becomes a five-minute async review.

My main concern is that as soon as people are out of the trenches of their work, that their motivation for the quality of said work deteriorates. This means we will have to invent better motivations for people to work at all. I can't see this kind of work—people as operators—excites anyone. Why would they work at all, then?

AI creates a similar catch 22 situation with programming and junior talent by creating exceptionally potent people in terms of their agency, but at the same time creates big gaping holes in their knowledge of their craft that they are completely useless without AI.

To me this is a clear message to everyone entering the workforce: AI is your multiplier, not a replacement for actually knowing how to do the work. If your future is in technology, make sure you know how technology works before delegating your work to AI, because if you fail to do so you're nothing when AI gets taken away from you.

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