AI isn't killing thinking — production is cheap, verification isn't
AryHHAry · x · 2026-10-02
- Responding to Karpathy's point that "we'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models," a user argues that AI isn't eliminating thinking — it's changing which part of thinking remains for humans.
- The core claim: in the AI era, production is cheap while verification is not, so the human cognitive focus shifts toward verification and judgment.
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