Words are cheap. Use fewer. · Intense Minimalism
The arrival of “AI” has created disruption. I don’t mean the one generally in hype, but a subtler one: all the artefacts that were synonymous of intellectual work now have lost that meaning. Essays…
2 minute read The arrival of “AI” has created disruption. I don’t mean the one generally in hype, but a subtler one: all the artefacts that were synonymous of intellectual work now have lost that meaning. Essays, reports, analysis, papers, articles: all of them can now be parroted out by an LLM with ease, in seconds. Words are now cheap. A one line prompt can make a whole essay. Complexity isn’t a signal for hard work anymore. Length is not an indicator of effort either. As fallible as heuristics can be, this has been a major loss. One that is making many education systems pointless and…
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