Why opinion on AI is so divided. AI power users are pulling away from everyone else.

It’s not just due to coding. It’s about understanding the tool.

I could mog just about anymore before. But with AI, I can easily be 1,000x as smart as a normie. Whereas a normie using AI is often dumber than before because they do not understand how to use AI well or correctly. Using an LLM, they end up with something worse than if they just had not used it at all.

Someone like me, however, can produce in a few hours with AI something that I could’ve created if I’d spent five hundred hours on it (just did that at work yesterday, though it wouldn’t have taken me 500 hours). It greatly enhances my capabilities and output.

In other words, my arrogance aside, AI (like many technologies) amplifies pre-existing advantages. Perhaps more than any other tech we’ve ever created. This disparity will only become greater.

So, to condense all those words, AI makes smart people tons smarter and normies a bit to a lot dumber. It’ll be interesting to see what falls out of that.