The AI boom is driven by people who want to have created without the inconvenience of doing the work. But this pattern isn't new. It's manifested within software for over a decade as the feature factory: playing make-believe that our decisions are informed & the garbage being shoveled out is useful.
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The newest term in the AI lexicon is "interpassivity"
The industry is reorienting around software that uses itself. But giving ourselves permission to lean back and relax merely indulges an old and toxic tendency.
