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Paul Ford gives a metaphor for how people are amazed at what AI can do when they use it:

They’re giving birth to a baby in two hours and they’re like, “That’s a great baby. That’s a two-hour baby.”

We used to live in a world where people equivocated a large artifact, like a 250-page PDF, with hard work (consulting companies made a living off this equivocation).

But generative AI destroyed this illusion. Now we’re all readjusting and reevaluating how to judge good, thoughtful work.