"It's like a special stuffy"

Those of us working in tech are charting the frontier of automation day by day. The better we become at using our new tools, the fewer people a company requires to wield them. This doesn’t apply equally to all industries and workflows, but so far the trend line only goes in the one direction. Humans are expensive and business is unsentimental, so we’ve ended up in a situation where everyone involved knows that we’re putting each other out of work. The more you see it happening, the harder it is to get excited by the “productivity” we’re unlocking. Much of it is motion without progress. The short-term results are impressive, the long-term consequences are uncertain, and anyone who pauses long enough to ask the uncomfortable questions risks getting left behind or ostracized. Brent articulates the struggle well in this piece about where the human belongs in these “loops” we’re all riding around like hamster wheels. Here's what I highlighted: I have so many half-baked ideas for tools or…