Original Reddit post

I’ve spent my entire life programming and decades learning the kind of judgment that comes from debugging, taste, and knowing why something breaks before it breaks. Recently, I asked Astra to make an online MMO—auctions, seasons, inventory, leveling, chat, deployment, DNS, and HTTPS—and it did in about two hours what would have taken me months. That experience left me with a question I don’t know how to answer: if society no longer particularly needs the things I learned to do, how can I still be useful to society? This isn’t an argument to stop creating. It’s an attempt to understand how learning, usefulness, identity, and meaning come apart when AI can do in minutes what took people years to master. The essay connects that feeling to a larger idea: perhaps creation means making something that eventually becomes bigger than you. I’d be interested in how other experienced builders are adapting when mastery still feels personally valuable but less socially necessary. Full essay: https://mika.global/post/1789946288.html submitted by /u/devontec

Originally posted by u/devontec on r/ArtificialInteligence