> Meanwhile, actual expertise continues to be devalued across the board. Intellectual curiosity that helps develop that expertise is steadily being devalued in favor of “productivity” hacks. And my absolute favorite, AI “solutions” to problems that were created by previous non-AI “solutions” that also didn’t understand the original problem they claimed to solve.
Not a huge fan of the idea that the business model for some of the more complex productivity app around—the Affinity suite—now no longer has a business model beyond “let me upsell you to ‘AI’”. I’m glad they haven’t discontinued them, but these apps are too important for people’s work for them to become some ‘AI’ vendor’s cost centre
