[vitally3643]

There's a really interesting angle here from machining.

A screw used to be a bespoke and precious object. It took a ton of time and effort to make a good screw. What we would today consider a 'machine screw' could only be made by extreme labor from someone very, very skiled.

But the thing about machines is that a machine can transfer craftsmanship. You can make a single really, really good screw and then a machine can transfer the quality of that screw into countless new screws.

In the modern era, screws of all types and qualities are more or less equally disposable. We produce in the billions today screws that would take days or weeks to cut by hand.

I sort of view AI the same way I'd look at a lathe without a leadscrew. You have to make your own screw by hand the first time, and then you can transfer whatever quality you can muster to any number of new screws. If you get better at making new screws, you can load that into the lathe and start making more and better screws. But you are fundamentally limited by the quality of screw you can make yourself. If all you can manage is a crooked lumpy mess, then that's all you'll be able to get out of the machine.