Ming's Spell Compendium #2 -- You Terrifying Upright Apes Are Underestimating Yourselves
This is a cultural adaptation — not a literal translation — of the original Chinese article. Some Chinese cultural references have been swapped for Western equivalents that hit the same emotional note. Previously on… Ming’s Spell Compendium #1 – One Year of Vibe Coding: A Cold Hard Look Foreword Humans, you’re selling yourselves short. How Much Can AI Amplify You? Last year (2024), my working hypothesis was: even with AI, you can’t dramatically exceed the user’s own ability. If AI’s training data represents the sum total of human knowledge, then the current crop of agentic evangelists would have you believe that professional expertise has become a worthless commodity in this era — because AI can write code like Linus, write novels like Hemingway, etc. ...