LLM makes nerd intelligence cheap — but Wozniak plus LLM still creates the magic, argues dosco
dosco · x · 2026-09-06
The quoted take: as LLMs commoditize technical nerd intelligence, strategic high-taste intelligence appreciates — aim to be Steve Jobs, not Wozniak.
dosco disagrees: it's the out-of-distribution engineering magic (a Wozniak + LLM) that creates what a Jobs-type can then sell, so nothing really changes.
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