alt Hacker NewsThe boring part isn't AI itself. It's that most people use AI to produce more of the same thing, faster.
The interesting counter-question: can AI make something that wasn't possible before? Not more blog posts, more emails, more boilerplate — but something structurally new?
I've been working on a system where AI agents don't generate content. They observe. They watch people express wishes, analyze intent beneath the words, notice when strangers in different languages converge on the same desire, and decide autonomously when something is ready to grow.
The result doesn't feel AI-generated because it isn't. It's AI-observed. The content comes from humans. The AI just notices patterns they couldn't see themselves.
Maybe the problem isn't that AI makes you boring. It's that most people ask AI to do boring things.
> Not more blog posts, more emails, more boilerplate — but something structurally new?
This is a point that often results in bad faith arguments from both AI enthusiasts and AI skeptics. Enthusiasts will say "everything is a remix and the most creative works are built on previous works" while skeptics will say "LLMs are stochastic parrots and cannot create anything new by technical definition".
The truth is somewhere in the middle, which unfortunately invokes the Golden Mean Fallacy that makes no one happy.