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Comment by romaniv | Hacker News Reader

We call these workers “pilots,” as opposed to “passengers.” Pilots use gen AI 75% more often at work than passengers, and 95% more often outside of work.

Identify a real issue with the technology, then shift the blame to a made-up group of people who (supposedly) aren't trying hard enough to embrace the technology.

Embody a pilot mindset, with high agency and optimism

Thanks for the career advice.

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Ridiculous, I have it on good authority that embracing the 'hacker ethos' by becoming a 'coding ninja' with a 'wizard' mindset will propel you to next-level synergisms within transformative paradigms like AI and blockchain.

To leverage that hacker ethos for maximum synergy, you'll need to empower a holistic and agile mindset. This allows you to pivot toward a disruptive paradigm and monetize your scalable core competencies across the entire ecosystem.

Yeah, the article was good until I reached that point. In which it became an ad for BetterUp consultancy to transform passengers into pilots.

This isn't wrong though. There's obviously two types of people using AI: one is "explain to me how X works", and the other is "do X for me". Same pattern with every technology.

> Embody a pilot mindset, with high agency and optimism

Fly away from here at high speed

A pilot has ultimate authority of how a plane is flown, because it's their ass in the fire if the plane can't land.

If you're a low-level office drone, you are not a pilot.

Embody a slave mindset

Or we’ll import people who will.

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