Link: I'm not consulting an LLM

Another morning, another AI-skeptic post trending on Hacker News. While I don't agree with the entire premise, this paragraph fully resonated with me:

“I’m Feeling Lucky” intelligence is optimized for arrival, not for becoming. You get the answer but nothing else (keep in mind we are assuming that it's a good answer). You don’t learn how ideas fight, mutate, or die. You don’t develop a sense for epistemic smell or the ability to feel when something is off before you can formally prove it.

We used to joke about and dismiss people who are good at Google search, but this skill provided an indication who is reading and applying critical thinking compared to who just want to go and take the shortcut.

As I wrote last week LLMs provide so much space for us to learn and improve. They also give us the opportunity to change entire processes – now we can get much closer to the Agile and Lean as they were originally intended to be, despite client or budget limitations.

Maybe that's optimistic, but I genuinely believe it. The companies still standing when the dust settles will be the ones who used AI to do better work, not just more work. And the people leading them won't be whoever got best at watching over others' shoulders. They'll be the ones who stayed curious, kept building their craft and taste, and never let a tool make decisions that were theirs to make.

Great teams don't need supervision. They need an environment worth showing up for.