Audacious Aspirations of an AI Optimist

I find this to be a naive article.

I completely disagree about AI copilots. If you are unskilled, you don't understand the medium and therefore these tools are of no use to you. They only benefit the already-educated elite, and serve to widen the gap between those who are competent and those who are not. When this effect is viewed through the lens of maximizing short term output, it's positive, but I'm reluctant to say whether that's true across the board and forever.

"Employees acting like entrepreneurs will change everything. More people will find a niche community of true fans and realize their potential outside of a company"

I completely disagree here too. There are only so many eyeballs, so much screen time, so many free dollars for discretionary spending, so many platforms, so much software to write and so much bandwidth. Twitch is, arguably, full. The halcyon days of stars routinely made overnight are over. Now the battle is to be noticed. This is true outside of entertainment fields as well. How many RPG systems are on Kickstarter? How many can you physically play in a lifetime? How many films can one person watch? And so on and so forth.

The prediction of a weakening of corporations is equally a pipedream. Hardware design won't get easier, and many big corporations build hardware. The domain knowledge in design, optimization, manufacturing, etc. remains sacred, because the work is fundamentally hard to do.