Noam Segal: belief

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…People are just so bad at that. Just like if I have an easy button, I will press it. I know I shouldn't, but I'm just going to eat those Doritos. So that's the challenge I think for people. It's just like because you could do it the easy way, it's so hard to resist. And that connects again to this ladder that's being raised that people are just getting into this stuff. It's just they have to make themselves do it the hard way to learn how to do it for real. And I'm really curious how that plays out with junior folks in the market learning how to actually code, how to do peer writing, how to write a [inaudible 00:51:28] from scratch with your fingers versus talking to Claude about it. Yeah, there's so much to say here. I think people miss feeling smart sometimes. I think I thought once upon a time about myself that I'm smart. And then you encounter these models, most recently a Fable 5 that just came out for the second time and you don't feel that smart anymore and you sort of lose the sense of self-efficacy that you used to have. And the second thing to say about this is that every time you, you, not the AI, solve a problem and get over a barrier, it increases, it raises your baseline of self-efficacy, of self-confidence, of self-belief. And every time you offload that to your favorite AI model, you are lowering that baseline and your thinking and your judgment is watching. And that's a serious problem. So maybe just wrap up this takeaway, the sentence used in this report I love, I'll just read. The productivity gains are real, but the quality of the work and the sharpness of the person producing it are taking a hit.…

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