Future of work
There is a lot of work in the future. I believe so, despite all the promises of AI replacing us, humans. What I foresee is creativity amplified at scale.
AI is enabling what was impossible just a couple of years back. I recently built a space game in a week using Claude 4.5 thinking model. It is a fully 3d engine where you may explore distant stars and assemble them in a constellation. I’m especially proud of the terrestrial planets generation and the Dyson swarm.
This project lived in my head for a decade. Now I have a tangible prototype, and it helps me connect with people who might make it a reality one day. AI empowered me to do that: open a door for a new, exciting opportunity.
Of course, in the process of building the prototype, I refined my thinking using an AI feedback loop, and the final product is so much better for it. The outcome is co-creation with AI, not just the implementation of my idea as is.
In the future, we will see the same process playing out in every aspect of our society. Co-creation with AI will unlock hobbies, passion projects, and projects at work that otherwise would never surface.
AI is helping to amplify the useful signal of creativity one may have. It elevates human capacity for creative output. This is very exciting.
And there is a dark side of it all. As habryka writing “In the classical lemon market story you (and a bunch of other people) are trying to sell some nice used cars, and some other people are trying to buy some nice used cards, and everyone is happy making positive-sum trades. Then a bunch of defective used cars ("lemons") enter the market, which are hard to distinguish from the high-quality used cars since the kinds of issues that used cars have are hard to spot.
Buyers adjust their willingness to pay downwards as the average quality of car in your market goes down. This causes more of the high-quality sellers to leave the market as they no longer consider their car worth selling at that lower price. This further reduces the average willingness to pay of the buyers, which in turn drives more high-quality sellers out of the market. In the limit, only lemons are sold.
In this classical model, a happily functioning market where both buyers and sellers are happy to trade, generating lots of surplus for everyone involved, can be disrupted or even completely destroyed by the introduction of a relatively small number of adversarial sellers who sell sneakily low-quality goods. From the consumer side, this looks like one day you having a fine and dandy time buying used cars, and the next day being presented with a large set of deals so suspiciously good that you know you something is wrong (and you are right).“
I think the concept of lemon market perfectly applies to the AI slop problem. It is so easy nowadays to push lemons that may look good but have no substance. It is easier than ever before to build a prototype that looks good but holds no water under the pressure of real user needs.
We will have to navigate both the positive enabling aspect and the negative diluting aspect of AI.
