[hdior]

Skill generating ideas is over rated.

Implementation is when skill matters.

I can imagine post scarcity Star Trek like ideas but not implement them. My skills at CE and SWE allow me to implement reasonable solutions there.

Chasing ideas for the sake of chasing ideas is a form of bike shedding and premature optimization.

[2muchcoffeeman]

You can only say this right now where there are an abundance of ideas and less skill to implement them. But even implementation requires creative thinking and the ability to generate ideas. Now we want to take away the need for the first part. This is NOT like going from handwriting to printing or radio to TV.

Something new is going on.

I use ChatGPT for work in a limited way. If you haven’t tried it, I suggest that you do. This potentially paradigm shifting technology.

[hdior]

We could say this for a long time now; all the historical squabbles over religious story is evidence useless ideation is an innate human feature that wastes time/resources, and the advancement of skill at implementation is what’s actually improved our day to day.

[2muchcoffeeman]

That's a bit of a leap. Because one set of ideas were wrong therefore having ideas is useless? Even those wrong ideas generated new and useful ideas. I also don't understand how you intend to improve implementation without having more ideas.