Seems plausible. Not much incentive for the surplus to be given back to the employer. Need better incentives.

If we're not seeing more economic impact of AI in terms of GDP growth, in my opinion, it's mostly because gains and controls are concentrated in a few companies (mostly big tech and a couple of big startups) because of the lack of open infrastructure, open science and open-source

Here's my "Dark Leisure" theory of any potential productivity paradox in AI:

- most AI use rn is bottom up and hidden (employee first, not company first): employees vibe code, vibe market, vibe write and get stuff done faster

- in many orgs, there is too little incentive to

fabian

Seems plausible. Not much incentive for the surplus to be given back to the employer. Need better incentives. 

https://x.com/fabianstelzer/status/1926000937702764635

I think this could potentially be the case at the beginning (Dark Leisure), but eventually you just have more time to think — hopefully that thinking can then be used to develop more in depth and better products! From my experience, there can only be so much doom scrolling before you realize you just aren’t really producing anything of real value. Real value comes from great work and great products. Creating something great takes more thinking that what has been used in the past — I’m so excited to see what people will do with all of this “more time”!