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Petar Dimov's avatar

Treating AI as a co-pilot rather than the driver emphasizes the importance of maintaining human direction and decision-making while leveraging intelligent tools effectively

Eugene Ting's avatar

Absolutely Petar. I think so far, even though MSFT and others have named it as a co-pilot, it hasn't met that in function yet. Part of being the co-pilot is putting in the destination (as in our mapping tech). Even if one hops on a Waymo or Cybercab, you have to put in the destination even if one doesn't actually hold the steering wheel or have an Uber driver behind it.

Setting the parameters the outcome, guardrails but also allowing course correcting.

Jorrit's avatar

I really resonate with the way you compared coding recursion to the slow crawl of self-driving cars it’s a great point that because software moves so fast, the "babysitting" feeling hits developers way harder than it hits drivers. :)

Do you think this "managerial fatigue" is just a temporary phase while the tools are still "interns," or are we reaching a point where the joy of problem-solving is being permanently replaced by the chore of auditing AI?

We aren't in the same field, but I'd love to support each other feel free to subscribe if you like my content too!

Jorrit

Eugene Ting's avatar

Thanks Jorrit for the thoughtful comment and sharing what resonated with you.

I suspect it's Everything Everywhere All At Once. Meaning it spans the spectrum of fatigue to full automation with "hands off the steering wheel" entirely.

It is what you make of it now, particularly in the entrepreneurial and enterprise space. In face the more you give it, the more you need to manage it, provide useful guardrails for how you would like "it" to work with you.

So it's hard. It's an investment, a small one in most cases and larger ones for more complex tasks. But even though it's a short term tax, the limitation is clearly defining what you want, when you want it by, why you want it, and at some point, making it easier on yourself to provide the necessary boundaries on the output.

I feel like our fields intersect particularly in investing, but yes I'd love to support each other's work on Substack!