More Thoughts on AI Adoption
Stub • 418 Words • Artificial Intelligence, 2026 • 03/27/2026
⚠️ This post contains a rougher cut of my thoughts on the topic and may be updated in the future. Please forgive any mistakes or lack of polish!
The various facets of when we do/do not want to adopt AI and why this happens.
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This article was published 2026-03-27 00:00:00 -0400, which makes this post and me old when I published it.
AI, Isolation, and Collaboration
- “Having a place to say “something feels weird … can you help me figure this out?” at any time feels deeply useful, particularly for the “somethings” that feel itchy but not yet important” (Cosleuth by Robin Sloan)
- Your other friends, co-workers, etc don’t have your context or are busy with their own work that having a broadly learned chat partner always around gives you a low friction way to bounce ideas around and iterate
- AI sycophancy can drive you away from people who criticize you (@spns.tv)
- Could it make you less immune to being challenged by others? Increasing defensiveness, etc.
- This overall can drive more isolation which in turn makes you rely on the chat platform even more
AI and the human desire to be special
- “i think something in the divine awaits me for resisting”
- i don’t want to be like other people
- i am smarter/better/more capable than other people
- i am more moral than other people
- All in all I think there is a kind of moral smugness in a lot of anti-AI sentiment, which they do have some justification for.
- “the ai will never be as smart as humans”
- so what?
- are what you always using all of your effort and intelligence? the law of large numbers and statistics can’t approximate doing the same thing over again with slight parameters tweaked?
- we are smart but not as smart as we like to think
AI, Toil, and Willingness
- AI can take the toil and dirty work away from you
- this increases my willingness to take on work
- it does also unblock some tasks like reading PDFs
- it is so hard to do this programmatically, but there is a lot of bureaucratic data trapped in these kinds of files
- if there are tons of PDFs you don’t want a person doing all that repetitive, mind-numbing work
Shipping Speed with AI
- So where are all the AI apps?
- Taste and well-defined roadmaps are the most important part because if implementation costs go down then what becomes more important is what to implement
- There also has to be safeguards against the torrent of slop
- There are some people who may have too much trust in AI agents and become “slop cannons”
- i won’t even call it AI brain rot but rather an acceleration of the Dunning Kruger effect like people will overestimate their own ability and underestimate their stupidity via AI
- People and understanding of AI output then becomes the bottleneck
- There are some people who may have too much trust in AI agents and become “slop cannons”