AI amplifies existing skill. Competent writers, coders, and designers get dramatically better, but elite performers become orders of magnitude more productive. The skill gap widens as average workers improve modestly while top performers surge ahead, and top coders report feeling ten times more effective.
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The level of like an individual person or an individual kid. I think it's pretty clear that AI is going to take people who are good at doing things and it's going to make them very good at doing things. And so it's going to be a tool that's going to raise the average across the board. You see that playing out already. Anybody who's in a position where they need to write something or design something or write code or whatever, if they're pretty good at it today to use AI, and all of a sudden they're very good at it. And I think the way the education system writ large is going to teach AI is going to be based hopefully a lot on that. But then there's this other thing that's happening, which we're also starting to see. And we're really seeing it particularly in coding right now, where the really great people are becoming like, spectacularly great. Think about the super empowered individual, the individual who is really good at coding or really good at making movies, or really good at making songs, or really good at making art or whatever those things are. If you're very good at it and you can really harness AI, you can become spectacularly great. I super productive. The really, really good coders are experiencing this right now. They're like, oh my God. All of a sudden I'm not twice as good as I used to be. I'm like 10 times as good as I used to be.
