Former engineer: AI lets anyone build anything — except people have no imagination
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-28
A viral AI-community quip: an ex-"cracked" engineer excitedly tells his non-technical friends they can now build whatever they can imagine with AI — only to discover his friends have no imagination. A sharp observation that in the AI era, ideas matter more than technical skill.
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