Comment by pksebben
2 days ago
I can only speak for myself, but it feels like playing with fire to productize this stuff too quick.
Like, I woke up one day and a magical owl told me that I was a wizard. Now I control the elements with a flick of my wrist - which I love. I can weave the ether into databases, apps, scripts, tools, all by chanting a simple magical invocation. I create and destroy with a subtle murmur.
Do I want to share that power? Naturally, it would be lonely to hoard it and despite the troubles at the Unseen University, I think that schools of wizards sharing incantations can be a powerful good. But do I want to share it with everybody? That feels dangerous.
It's like the early internet - having a technical shelf to climb up before you can use the thing creates a kind of natural filter for at least the kinds of people that care enough to think about what they're doing and why. Selecting for curiosity at the very least.
That said, I'm also interested in more data from an engineering perspective. It's not a simple thing and my mind is very much straddling the crevasse here.
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