Engineer: autonomous machines cut human creativity out of the loop
rakyll · x · 2026-09-09
rakyll (Jaana Dogan, ex-Google engineer) raises a thought-provoking point: when machines solve the hardest problems autonomously, humans and human creativity get cut out of the loop. Historically, breakthroughs happen when curious people explore a topic and get inspired to do something else — exactly the kind of serendipity that autonomous machine pipelines lack.
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