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Now that could evolve and turn into a personal trainer keeping track of my progress.
What if I send it my heart rate. Etc. Prove I did it.
;-)
E.g. Job applications, rental references, clearance at existing jobs, citizenship and visa applications, digital signing for things like business contracts.
I don't have an answer because as you say with power comes people wrangling over power. And claw sloperators can be way more persistent!
Also AI is better at beaten path coding. Spend more tokens on native or spend them on marketing?
Programming is famously non-linear. Small teams making billion dollar companies due to tech choices that avoid needing to scale up people.
Yes you need marketing, strategy, investment, sales etc. But on the engineering side, good choices mean big savings and scalability with few people.
The loom doesn't have these choises. There is no make a billion tshirts a day for a well configured loom.
Now AI might end up either side of this. It may be too sloppy to compete with very smart engineers, or it may become so good that like chess no one can beat it. At that point let it do everything and run the company.
OTOH, someone arrested can (probably should?) refuse.
But it is not quite the case. The hand coded solution may be quicker than AI at reaching the business goal.
If there is an elegant crafted solution that stays in prod 10 years and just works it is better than an initially quicker AI coded solution that needs more maintenance and demands a team to maintain it.
If AI (and especially bad operators of AI) codes you a city tower when you need a shed, the tower works and looks great but now you have 500k/y in maintaining it.
Though of the same idea. You could run a proxy that IMAP downloads the emails and then filters and acts as IMAP server. SMTP could be done the same limited to certain email addresses. You could run an independent AI harmful detector just in case.