The most positive outcome I can think of is one where computers get really good at doing, and humans get really good at thinking

Steve Yegge said on some podcast recently that AI is going to have to come up with a more visual medium for communicating, because people don't want to read several paragraphs. He shared this uncritically, seemingly without judgement or disappointment. Yegge himself is a former Googler and by all accounts was an impressive person at one point, now best known as the person who vibe-birthed the inanity that is GasTown.

At work I'm seeing colleagues I once considered formidable completely turning off their brains and letting the bot drive, and wholly missing the mark on work quality. It's like a sickness, like COVID brain fog people don't even notice they have.

I see humans getting worse at reading, worse at writing, and worse at programming by themselves. It makes me angry and sad.

We are getting dumber, people, and I fully believe Altman and friends are lying when they say they want it otherwise.