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> Swimming against the rip will leave you exhausted and helpless. If you are though, then I hope you have a large life preserver.

You use AI for search like everyone else because that's what it always was and all it was ever good for. What if I told you that your dramatic statement is totally misreading the vast majority of office workers and their work? If there are waves, it doesn't resemble a riptide, but stop-and-go traffic.

Their work isn't hard for them to begin with. They're bored and stuck in endless meetings. The bottleneck is the rest of the organization. Just like a traffic jam, they cannot leave. Not even working from home will save them from the random calls, messages, or emails keeping them glued to the desk.

For every nontrivial goal, all decisions up to that point will await approval from one person. The baton is then handed off to someone else and so it goes.

As tempting as it is for some people to want to, one cannot jam the AI middleman pirate grift machine into this process without violating centuries of accountability laws. Anyone attempting to build an AI-first business will hit these same roadblocks and become the thing they attempted to be "better" than.

Any attempt by AI companies to slip out of this situation with reform politics would be highly entertaining to watch though. I think the sharks smell blood.

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I think you're right about companies and bottlenecks. I don't think it disagrees with what I'm saying.

The rip is in the demand and adoption of the technology and its subsequent effects on everything else. You can choose to learn how to navigate it, go faster with it, or sit on the sidelines, but trying to stop it won't make the demand, the technology or its adoption go away.

This thing is here to stay and , judging by all the meetups in my area, it's only getting bigger. Who knows, maybe companies will be forced to dramatically change to reduce bottlenecks. Maybe there will be a lot more smaller companies. I can't say for sure.

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The interest of businesses and their employees do not control how they are required to conduct business. The tail does not wag the dog.

This is an uphill legal battle beyond personal opinion or preference, and I'm not seeing the demand. I'm not saying that you think vibecoding is what people should be doing with AI, but ignoring the details is the only way to make this go faster. External to the business groupthink, that is just fraud.

All this time before LLMs, any business could have just cranked out slop any old way. What kept them from doing that?

What I think AI has done is shine a spotlight on longstanding problems, and that is good, but we're a lot further away from solving any of them than many realize. I'm not even sure there is anything to solve if we're just talking about efficiency.

> The rip is in the demand and adoption of the technology and its subsequent effects on everything else. You can choose to learn how to navigate it, go faster with it, or sit on the sidelines, but trying to stop it won't make the demand, the technology or its adoption go away.

What is there to adapt to? I don't think AI has changed work. It improved accessibility to information. It didn't exceed the capability of web search or books. You still have to type some stuff and then read what it "generates". That's... that's the same thing we were already doing.