Feel the Burn

I’ve been reading a lot lately about the value of friction. Not in the sense that rubbing two sticks together creates friction, and therefore heat, and sometimes fire, though fire is pretty impressive, but in the sense of a human being trying to do something, and having to exert effort, endure frustration, muster patience, apply creativity, and otherwise struggle to produce a hoped-for outcome. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is supposed to get rid of “all that friction” for us. You w...