Everyone is busy labeling content as "AI-generated."
But soon, most content will be AI-generated anyway.
Maybe we should flip it.
Stop labeling what's made by AI.
Start labeling what's made by humans.
"Human-made" will be the new luxury label.
1/ “AI is making programmers dumber.”
After 20 years of coding, I thought that might be happening to me too.
AI was suddenly writing code faster than I could read and understand it. It felt like I was losing the ability to keep up. 🧵
3/ And now I feel the opposite of what I expected.
I don’t think less because of AI. I think more.
I explore more ideas, make more decisions, and spend more mental energy on higher-level problems.
I really relate to DHH after his Rails World. I found myself in a similar situation: I built top state library for React and RN, only to realize that, for me, this ecosystem is already dead. Still, I’m optimistic about the future. I actually liked Native + Rust even more.
Humans were built for a relatively simple life.
Find food. Stay alive. Reproduce. Build relationships. Have some fun.
Our brains evolved for that world.
Then we built a completely different one.🧵
AI could make civilization simple again without destroying everything civilization gave us.
We could keep the science, medicine, technology and abundance while outsourcing much of the artificial complexity humans were never designed to process.
That would be revolutionary.
The Shopify / React Native debate looks technical.
To me, part of it looks like people trying to keep their old world intact.
You can wave startup benchmarks like a pulse. That doesn't tell us whether the old economic argument is still alive. 🧵
I expect a transition period where we spend enormous effort making AI imitate the companies we already understand.
More agent roles. More elaborate workflows. More familiar rituals.
We should measure the product, not admire the org chart.