Victor Saly wrote this on 23 October 2026, and it is kept exactly as it came out. AI has not touched it.

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Written 23 October 2026, by victor

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Productive friction What counts of evidence of competence We tend to hide ai assisted work like a cheating behaviour rather than a enhanced way of producing results I want my product to look more human more unique and non slop product

What we reward? What’s the job goal must change

Skills set had to change and developed right fundamentals for every work regardless how assisted can be without a good understanding of your final judgement becomes hands of the wave and not your final architecture

Skills bar are raising and that’s the world we live now where expectations are results not only that result that matters that goes directly to the point not redirected to generic point and that’s where us humans the low fleshed based works to understand those long windy result into small and clear answers based on statistics and closed assumptions which most llms based we are The one who made the decision at least in the current world and my goals as programmer is get there with a framework that allow us to have accountability for that important steps where we Decide whenever something sits or not In that direction and guide for a solution our area of expertise

If you to Social media today and majority of The data is ai driven which in a way become monotonous boring and not unique and when someone comes with something new is exciting and appealing remember the days where we were fed of call center lack of understanding of local communities is ai going in a similar way i doubt but it feels at this stage at some point we will find this non ai driven thoughts and outcomes very exotic expensive and elegant which today is why you don’t do it if everyone does?

I’m very pro of the ai driven model it brings incredible things to anyone who has thoughts and can be converted into real working ideas which is super Amazing is this time of leaving, but this pace is going to come with consequences if we don’t look at it they are already signs the world of it is changing so quickly that we are just catching up and believe is tiring and it can cause this way of old thinking lets the process drives the learning which at this pace it will be hard to get there. So my advice don’t let ai to break this level of creativity of unique way of thinking but embrace your idea with it. Keep the core of your identity you might a doctor with interested on holistic medicine and that your core that mixture of different things that makes you unique. Think first act after the building ideas nowadays is so important spend hours days thinking about what you want so you can provide this tool the right direction. Learn how ai works how it thinks how it will react how it will make mistakes how valid a mistake can be to deliver first than way for perfection understand the limits and gratitutes of this new way of living we live today. Avoiding technology is like not accepting need a parody not yet found but is all this together. I’ve read books prior ai and after same author and everyone go trh been in a way been Affected for this new wave ember reading

Ray Kurzweil – The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999): Forecast AI passing the Turing test around 2029 and a merger of humans and machines and believing at that point when I was a naive but optimistic by nature teen that this will be happening and we forget and understand that overtime is all about us. Ai wil not exists without us humans, a prompt was asked about humans to Ai this is the reply this and find it and resume it