I have been thinking a lot lately about how AI would seem less impressive to the average user if consumer tech wasn’t appliance-ified and hostile to programmability and approachable-learning-curve automation for people whose main job isn’t programming, but this thread articulates similar ideas better and in far more depth than I could have: https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine/116845902656397041
beka valentine@beka_valentine@kolektiva.socialin particular, there are a lot of software-related skills which were either never properly developed into novice-friendly forms, or which were left to languish and complexity and die over the last 20 years as the idea of the novice ceased to be widely recognized as real