[jerojero]

People in Silicon Valley have more money than they have time. So solutions that are framed as "time savers" or "productivity enhancers" really resonate with them.

However, the bulk of people I'd say actually have more time than they do money. So there was a bit of an effort to turn LLMs and generative AI into attention economy, it's not cost effective yet and there's a big push against it from content creators who are more than willing to make content for free so long as they are given a space to host it.

I like that the LLMs make it easier for me to do programming, but I also felt like what I was doing before was... fine. I kind of get a feeling that people in the tech space think there's always going to be new innovative software that's sort of "not yet discovered" and so this productivity gain that LLMs bring is going to bring an era of unbridled creativity. And I definitely think we're going to be seeing more and better video-games and more and better software. But also, I'm afraid that the utility we as people get from software might be reaching a plateau and instead we are just trying to re-invent the wheel over and over with marginal improvements.

Ultimately, what does an AGI world would even look like? For me, I would like to spend more time with my friends whom I feel I've lost to the productivity machine.

To be honest, the most fun people I interact with on a daily basis are laid-back people, a lot of them in temporary unemployment or in whatever jobs gets them by, and that's kind of the promise of AGI but at the same time... it might not be that hard to achieve such a world with the kind of productivity we can already muster and have chosen not to. So I'm a little bit skeptical in the promise of time that AGI supposedly will bring.

[ryandrake]

Great comment. I'd add that millionaire tech executives are largely the ones dreaming up these LLM products, and their level of interaction with "ordinary people" is probably nil. They have personal assistants doing all that stuff. Do you think Zucc shops for his own groceries or Musk buys his own Khakis? No way, their entire interaction with the real world is through assistants, so it's no wonder that their product vision is limited to "something just like my assistant: obedient, energetic, positive intern who agrees with and executes my every word".

[robocat]

> the bulk of people I'd say actually have more time than they do money

I always find this cliche absurd.

People in developed countries are given relatively equal amounts of time (say 80 years average of up to 15 hours a day). Our time is actually one of the most equal things we all get - yet we don't talk about it like that.

With jobs we often trade time for money. Retirement often really disconnects the value of time: even though we should value time more the less we have left.

Us humans are not so good at valuing time spent well.

[graemep]

its not just in tech. There are lots of products and services designed for the "cash rich time poor" because that is what the people in charge understand.