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Design Ryo.lu
Over-reliance on AI to eliminate friction in creative work threatens to erase the 'struggle' that builds personal judgment and collaborative social bonds.
What: Developer Ryo Lu argues that the difficulty inherent in learning and creation is not a bug to be patched by LLMs, but a feature that fosters deeper understanding and professional relationships.
Why it matters: The industry is approaching an inflection point where the ease of generation may lead to a workforce that lacks the foundational 'taste' and social friction required for original, high-stakes collaborative engineering.
Original article

AI can remove much of the difficulty involved in learning and making things, but some of that struggle builds judgment, understanding, relationships, and the ability to create things with other people that none could have made alone.

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