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Why does everyone talk about this part of the issue but never the other one? Society can’t progress if we can’t delegate the boring stuff and work on complicated stuff. How else will it progress?

Do you think we could have progressed to this level if we were still calculating stuff by hand? Log tables??





"This level" presumably being when the accumulation of progress past at last overwhelms us in all its complication?

who decides what is boring stuff? there are prompts on github to build entire applications from scratch. if you are going to go in this direction, what happens to the critical thinking pathways inside your brain that no longer have to work?

Who decided doing arithmetic is boring and we need calculators?



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