Playful experimentation drives innovation — stop judging AI creativity by productivity
dreamwieber · x · 2026-10-03
dreamwieber argues that a huge share of the cool things people have ever used came from playful experimentation. That's why he finds it dumb to look at the current explosion in AI-driven creativity and ask "yeah but where's all the productivity?" — playful exploration is the precondition of innovation, not a distraction from it.
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