'AI Makes You Boring': blog post argues offloading thinking to LLMs kills originality

A viral blog post argues that AI makes people boring by replacing the deep thinking that produces original ideas. The author contends that "cool part about pre-AI Show HN is you got to talk to someone who had thought about a problem for way longer than you had." The post pushes back against the "human in the loop" argument, calling it fundamentally flawed. Original ideas result from the work itself, not from high-level steering of AI output, the author argues.

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