Thought
AI invents, you simplify
AI gives everyone the inventing half of the work for free, and simplifying is now the real job.
People already built complicated solutions to simple problems.
LLMs take that to a new scale.
Anyone can now spit out ten ideas in a minute, each one polished and each one standing alone.
Inventing and simplifying only work as a pair.
Simplifying means seeing the pattern behind several ideas, how they connect and what to throw away.
It hurts, and it was rare even before AI.
AI removed the gate on inventing.
It did nothing for simplifying.
The teams that win now invent less and connect more.