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Cool. Can you show us some great new things you have done with AI?

Saying "nuh uh" after I pointed out something that is plain to see isn't much of an argument. Show us better than? Where is the unequivocally better software, or anything really, "AI" enabled you to do?

Or is it just claims that amount to "trust me" or "look at all these repos/web apps"?

> For me, it's "I can do this now; yesterday I could not."

Yeah. More.

Better? How would you be able to tell? Can you show us better? Or only more?

> I'm not delivering features at 10x the speed. There's a limit to the amount of code I can (and should) be submitting for review.

My point exactly

> But the features I'm building are _better_, and the effort is less.

Can we cash that check or is it gonna trade heavily discounted like all grand claims on AI since all software all around us together with the economy and the Earth's life supporting systems keep degrading every year? We keep getting promised the better, but we only get to see the more.

The pro argument is always quantity based, yet we never get to see the actual gain in quality. It's always "I'm doing SO MUCH more". Never "I'm doing better, with less effort."

It's also what we see in the wild. There are so many things going on, so many news about "AI". Are things getting better in any meaningful way? Why are we getting so much from "AI" yet things keep getting worse? The only real, objective and verifiable gain has been the stock price of a handful of companies, most of them heavily into infrastructure and manufacturing hardware.

Seems like a pretty clear pattern. There's so much output, but everything is worse. And the only argument we hear for why this is actually a good thing is just how much more output there is. Hmmm

Traction between intention and result is the most powerful tool in the brain's kit. We are made to spin our wheels often, it's adversarial.

Gain and keep traction. Attention is our most valuable resource. If you chose what you attend to, you can achieve at the limit of your physical and mental potential. If you attend to what others wish you attend to, you will be ceding the difference to parasitic systems.

Nothing will help if you don't put in the effort. You need to regain dopamine sensitivity and the way to do that is going on a dopamine diet. If you keep gorging on easy dopamine, it can only get worse.

I think it is becoming clear that we now have type-1 and type-2 ADHD prevalent in the population. Dopamine deficiency or insensibility are indistinguishable in terms of symptoms.

We are all exposed to so much adversarial noise trying to steer us that people are loosing the ability to focus and to filter.

Dieting and exercising helps. Cut down on exposure to noise from apps, streaming services, devices, etc. And exercise your brain, use it. Read long form text, take notes, write intentional arguments, use these arguments to steer yourself and those around you to create things of value.