Your POV is invaluable and I ain't gonna begin to question it. What I will do is drag this out into the light: You're talking software now. And what you're talking about is the ability to blue-sky something that didn't exist before. And as veen and I have discussed at length, if you aren't any good at coding, AI is probably better than you. And if you're willing to settle with AI's approximation of your wants and needs, you saved a lot of time and effort. But what if you actually know what the fuck you're doing? story time So I used to mix Big Brother. I mixed Big Brother for like ten years? Something ridiculous like 16 seasons. And 80% of that show is "match the fader to the face." The other 20% can be excruciatingly tricky and everyone in that room was fucking top of their game. We had a guy come out to mix the live show. Hot shit. Name of Klaus. And Klaus wasn't interested in debriefing with us, he knew if you had a lot of mics you put it on the automix, and who the fuck did we think we were? So Klaus, in between changes and other shit, just put the houseguests on automix, not knowing that that time he's doing set changes and stuff is when everyone on the show realizes they may be about to spend 20 hours hanging from a carrot or some shit. So while he's got that shit on automix, and he's featuring the evicted houseguest and the I-shit-you-not WIFE of the CHAIRMAN of PARAMOUNT, somebody breaks off from the pack and pees like a racehorse. Which drowns out the conversation the evicted guy and the WIFE of the CHAIRMAN of PARAMOUNT were having. On live TV. The censors had to bleep 30 straight seconds of audio before Klaus figured out what the fuck just happened to his career. 'cuz here's the thing - yeah you can fumblefuck your way to some mediocre app through liberal applications of ChatGPT. But you'll never hit anything mission critical and more than that, you'll never learn anything mission critical, and you'll never be exposed to anything mission critical, and you will sit there like a lump of shit for the rest of your life, "prompt engineering" your way through the Peter Principle. _____________________________________________ AI is a solid b-minus at everything it does. If you don't really need it, it won't really give you any reason to complain. It'll make mid-grade memes, it'll write mid-grade essays, it'll come up with mid-grade recipes for your leftovers without even mixing bleach and ammonia anymore. It's eHow for anything you ask of it. And sometimes you need eHow! but not very often! Because in general you can get to 80% without putting a whole lot of effort into it anyway! it's that last 20% that kicks your ass and AI will never get there. Never ever. Never ever ever ever ever, it's been asymptotic for two years now. What's an MBA for, anyway? I know several. They learn some business cases. You know business cases. You're not going anywhere in investment banking without nepotism anyway, and your best case with an MBA is what, Bain? It sure isn't McKinsey. Either way, you're basically learning how to be a suckup because suckups are necessary when people need to make hard decisions and need to blame someone else. The whole goal of an MBA program is to rub your shoulders against people who will pay you someday and frankly the curriculum could be replaced with advanced martini-drinking and nothing of value would be lost. I'm a jobs creator at this point. I think we're at like 11 employees? And I can divide them into two classes: people who do what they're told and are good at it and people who solve problems and are good at it. The do-what-they're-told crew are mine forever or until they move. We're a good place to work, we treat people with respect, people like working for us. Until their life circumstances change they will gladly exchange their skilled labor for my money. The problem solvers are gone as soon as we run out of problems for them to solve. Because it doesn't matter what their degree is in, it doesn't matter their training, they're absorbing the world and figuring out what needs to be done and offering suggestions and a course of action along with information about the problem they've encountered. We miss them when they're gone but they never belonged to us, they were just under our roof while they fledged their wings. And that's fine too. We don't have enough room for them to grow as much as they should and we try very hard to ensure they leave with more skills than they came in with. AI will give you answers. It won't teach you how to ask questions. If you can focus on learning how to learn you have exactly fuckall to fear from AI.Mainly labor and consumer marketing, right? Dramatically reduced need for skilled labor to build and ship a product, or deliver a payment-worthy service at scale.