Human invention and laziness may be speeding capability transfer into AI
craigbalding · x · 2026-07-25
The author argues that two everyday forces — invention and laziness — are accelerating the transfer of human capability into AI systems.
- Invention pushes people to use coding agents to discover and build new things, creating fresh, high-value training data.
- Laziness/convenience pushes people to offload work they already know how to do, turning yesterday’s hard-won expertise into commodity signals.
- The result, the post says, is a continuous compounding loop where humans keep teaching smarter systems through both productivity tools and convenience-driven outsourcing.
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