My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog

June 10, 2025

A 2x2 matrix categorizing tasks by importance and enjoyment.

Quadrant I: Fun and important
Quadrant II: Tedious but important
Quadrant III: Tedious and pointless
Quadrant IV: Fun but pointless

Some of the smartest people I know share a bone-deep belief that AI is a fad — the next iteration of NFT mania. I’ve been reluctant to push back on them, because, well, they’re smarter than me. But their arguments are unserious, and worth confronting. Extraordinarily talented people are doing work that LLMs already do better, out of spite.

All progress on LLMs could halt today, and LLMs would remain the 2nd most important thing to happen over the course of my career.

Source: My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog

This really resonated with me.