Double Vision: The AI-Era Superpower Is Deep Detail Plus Big-Picture Orchestration
kieranklaassen · x · 2026-10-16
Kieran Klaassen quotes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's lines about poets needing "double vision"—seeing near things as if afar and distant things as intimately as if touched—and argues that in the AI era it pays to be a poet. Those who gain superpowers with AI, he says, are people who can go into super detail, iterate and polish, while simultaneously orchestrating the big picture and dreaming bigger than anyone before. Both are needed to make great products with AI.
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