Signals #004: What Doesn't Compress - Christopher Butler (opens in new tab)

There is a useful frame for the AI moment that has been quietly emerging in the writing of the last few months. The work we do, it suggests, splits roughly into two halves. There is the half that produces — the rendering, the executing, the building, the delivering. And there is the half that decides — what to make, what to attend to, what to leave alone. AI is rapidly compressing the first half. It is doing comparatively little to the second. And the gap between what AI can and cannot do is ...