jjvincent invokes Terence Tao: ceding exploration to AI means ceding human agency
jjvincent · x · 2026-09-11
In a debate with MattBruenig, jjvincent pushes back on the idea that AI can simply cover the unexplored ground between desire and outcome. Even in programming, he argues, improved languages and systems historically emerged from humans struggling to build solutions.
Citing Terence Tao on mathematics, he contends that it is precisely by exploring this territory that humans discover what they even want — ceding it to AI means ceding agency.
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