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Make things better by making better things.
The trillion-dollar question right now is: How much will AI replace the work you do?
A simple test: "Hey Claude, tell me a funny joke.”
[Claude’s response for me: “Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything.”]
Womp womp.
This is something I’ll keep coming back to with every new model that comes out.
The best comics are always searching for the line. They’re willing to cross it from time to time. They put words to something we’re all feeling. Most importantly, they’re willing to bomb.
AI, however, optimizes for the opposite: the safe, the proven, the reliable.
Technology has never made it easier to make average stuff for average people. It’s a race to the bottom; you might even win.
The funniest people are funny because they’re willing to fail in ways that don’t average well.
So the honest version of the trillion-dollar question isn’t, “Can AI do what you do?” It’s, “Which parts of what you do are average?”
Which is to say: automated. A summary of yesterday’s news, a competent product description, a how-to article, a meeting summary—those are already getting squeezed.
What resists displacement is the human work of telling a good joke. And if you have to explain it, it’s probably not that good to begin with.
If what you do can be written down into a simple set of instructions, chances are AI will replace it.