Signals #006: The Floor and the Ceiling (opens in new tab)

There is a pattern visible across the writing about AI this week, and it is older than the writing about AI. Each time a new tool drops the floor of access to a craft, the ceiling of mastery rises somewhere new. The interesting work moves up — out of execution and into the decisions that govern what should be produced, what to trust, what to delegate, what to keep. Takuma Kakehi names this cycle precisely in one of the week’s strongest pieces. Each interface revolution — the terminal, the GUI...