AI Is Scary. We Should Listen Better. (opens in new tab)

Inside the tech world, AI feels like a superpower. Think of it like a language — clunky while you are leaning and then second nature. So much so that you forget how hard it was to learn in the first place. Once you’ve experienced what it can do, the optimism is hard to suppress. Companies are getting built faster. Individual productivity is going up by multiples. Problems that used to require a whole team now get solved by one person orchestrating a handful of AI agents in parallel — research...