Noam Segal: preference

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…I feel a lot of people listening are probably feeling all this and feeling heard. So what's interesting is so far the two takeaways. One is this bifurcation that's happening, and these archetypes that break that group up a little bit further. At the same time, just broadly, burnout is increasing significantly. Optimism is declining. Talk about just those two, how you think about those two side by side, this idea of many people are much happier and having the best time of their life. My people are having a really bad time, but then broadly, this optimism and burnout shift. I think there's something addictive about this technology, and I'll speak for myself for a second and say that I've also never had as much fun in my career as when using these technologies, and I've been using it for too many hours a day playing about and building. I think many of us, even those who aren't as energized about the technology, we still feel like we're in this fascinating technological playground, and it's very, very hard to disengage from that technology and touch grass, read a book, whatever you love to do in your spare time as well, Lenny. And so, yes, we're enjoying using this technology because it's opened up avenues that we've never had, but on the other hand, it's tiring. It's tiring to be constantly learning this technology, and constantly trying to apply it in different contexts, and constantly try to take on more than what your traditional role dictated. Because, again, there aren't any traditional roles anymore, we're just all builders these days, whether that's an official thing within a company or not. And so I think that naturally this leads to these clashing emotions, these exciting feelings around what's possible, and how fun it is to use AI. And on the other hand, the realization that the reason this technology is so exciting is because it's so powerful, and because it's so powerful, it might be coming for us, and to take our jobs, right? Did you grow up on The Terminator movies? I keep thinking about The Terminator movies with time- I don't know about growing up, but yes, I watched them early in my life.…

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