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I think it's just hard to know this for the people working on it. AI radically changed my life. I'm doing at least 10 times more, more ambitious, higher quality work. I've been listening to people around me talking about alignment and the singularity for almost a decade. It's strange to imagine that people live in a world where this isn't and hasn't been happening for a while now. "Over-hyped" is not the word I would use if I take my daily experience as an example, nor when I consider even lower-bound projections.

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> if I take my daily experience as an example, nor when I consider even lower-bound projections.

did you generate 10x more income in the time AI changed your life? What is the projection you are doing?

Not optimizing for that. I derive "10x" more satisfaction, because I'm able to work on more ambitious problems. I'm probably making less money than I would otherwise.

Cocaine radically changed my life. I'm doing at least 10 times more, more ambitious, higher quality work.

It's actually not a bad comparison. You might feel like you're getting 10x more done with AI but it's going to be 10x more buggy and/or 10x missing the edge cases, in the way AI usually misses the mark. I don't do coke, but I know plenty of people who do, and I would not trust them with anything important.

>I'm doing at least 10 times more, more ambitious, higher quality work.

Got any examples you can share?

Not publicly yet, but I work on a programming language, compiler, and runtime that achieves magical (to me) things in a niche field. I would never have attempted something at this scale otherwise, so it's a very 0-to-1 experience subjectively.

That matches my experience. At least on the solo front, there were so many topics I wasn't an expert on, that limited what I could build. Now with AI assistance, the sky is the limit. I don't need to be an expert in frontend, backend, I can just build on my personal expertise in a functional domain, and leverage AI to fill in the gaps. I believe many people will benefit from being to build exactly what they want, without gatekeepers or investment.

> I'm doing at least 10 times more, more ambitious, higher quality work.

Is your pay scaling in a similar manner? Or have you just raised the floor for what's expected of you?

I work on self-directed projects that don't make any money, currently. My "day job" (not software development) does not have this '10x' quality, though I imagine it could were I allocating my efforts that way.

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