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“The German army in 1941 invaded the Soviet Union with somewhere between 600,000 and 750,000 horses. The horses were not for riding. They were for moving guns, ammunition and supplies. Weeks prior to the invasion, 15,000 Panje carts were issued to the infantry units that would trail behind the fast-moving Panzers. The vast majority of Germany’s soldiers marched into Russia, as they had into France, on foot.”
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Software eating the world was predicated on zero marginal cost. Cognition eating software brings back a metered bill. The firms that thrive will treat compute as COGS, UX as moat, and rapid iteration as life support. Everyone else will discover that “AI shaped holes” can also be money pits: expensive, probabilistic, and mercilessly competitive.
from Strange Loop Cannon
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Just back from the gym - thinking about Doing More is Often Easier by David Cain
always be curious about what’s just beyond your usual stopping point. Doing more often makes things easier, not harder.
My usual stopping point felt like just about the end of the road, but it was actually the beginning of a hidden, hyper-rewarding territory where exceptional results happen.
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Key take away from “What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers” - the process matters for creativity:
“I have no idea how he ended up as an art director when he can’t visualise what he wants in his head unless can see some end results”, Bradley says. Rather than beginning with sketches and ideas, then iterating on those to produce a more finalised image or vision, Bradley says his boss will just keep prompting an AI for images until he finds one he likes, and then the art team will have to backwards engineer the whole thing to make it work.“He doesn’t know that the important thing isn’t just the end result, it’s the journey and the questions you answer along the way”.
“What follows from these discussions is me explaining why, usually over hours rather than minutes, that these tools have no place in a professional game development pipeline or production and actually hinder the development of visuals”, Francis says. “I also find myself explaining to them how the iteration and ‘idea’ phase of a project is where the best stuff happens, how exploring things through artistic labor is where your best ideas come to fruition, and why would we want an AI (that we don’t even own) to do that for us with art that isn’t ours to use?”
