Florentin

That really hit home for me.

The stuffed animals thing too. What I understand (crafting a personality, imagining entire worlds, sticking with it long after people think it's weird) is where real creativity comes from. It's a huge part of why some people are good at working with AI. Building a personality is exactly what a model can't do on its own.

Where I've landed and what I'm building with Clarity (meetclarity.de), is that there's a real difference between replacing someone and just getting the annoying stuff out of their way. When AI does the thinking for you, something important gets lost. There's this MIT study ("Your Brain on ChatGPT") that found people who used an LLM to write had way less brain activity and couldn't even remember what they'd written afterward. That's the future we're worried about (the one where people stop trying), and yeah, it's concerning.

I'm focused on the opposite: building something that handles the noise (inbox, sorting, staring at a blank page paralyzed) so your judgment, creativity, and taste stay front and center. It's not "describe your perfect show and it magically appears," but more like "spend your energy on the show itself, not all the admin crap around it." The goal for me is to amplify people, not replace them.

I don't think those two futures are as different as they seem. Your point is solid: access matters, and there's nothing noble about gatekeeping creativity behind skill or money. Maybe both futures are coming and the real challenge is making sure the amplifying version is accessible and cheap enough to win out.

Really glad you shared this so I could stumble upon it. 🫶