Lenny Rachitsky on why AI is addictive and draining at once. He spends hours experimenting and building, but the constant need to upskill exhausts him. Everyone's now expected to be a builder, and the same tools that excite him also raise fears about job replacement.
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There's something addictive about this technology. I've never had as much fun in my career as when using these technologies, and I've been using it for too many hours a day, playing about and building. Many of us, even those who aren't as energized about the technology, we still feel like we're in this fascinating technological playground, and it's very, very hard to disengage, touch grass. And so yes, we're enjoying using this technology because it's opened up avenues that we've never had. But on the other hand, It's tiring. It's tiring to be constantly learning this technology and constantly trying to apply it in different contexts and constantly try to take on more than what your traditional role dictated. Because again, there aren't any traditional roles anymore. We're just all builders these days, whether that's an official thing within a company or not. That naturally leads to these clashing emotions, exciting feelings around what's possible. And on the other hand, the realization that the real The reason this technology is so exciting is because it's so powerful, and because it's so powerful, it might be coming for us to take our jobs.