That line about the nine year old girls shipping enterprise saas with 3% uptime made me laugh.
I don't know any nine year olds that are doing it, but I know a lot of fifteen and sixteen year olds that are.
It's a wild thing to see.
This is the new entry level, and it's happening again, just like it did in art ten years ago.
I still think that the guy from Reddit was a bad parent. When you say things like, "There's no process, no life in it, no depth." That's generally the kind of thing people who don't use the technology well have to say.
But also, if you don't enjoy it, you shouldn't be doing it.
Your kids should be free to learn and explore. The key thing to teach them about AI is they need to tune in, not tune out like most of the adults do.
Tuning in means iteration, and problem solving. Pointing out when the machine is wrong, and how something can be better. When necessary, manual rewrites. Context shaping is a skill that goes well beyond delegation.
But, that said. I also think that everyone, and I mean everyone, is thinking about AI wrong. The simple fact that everyone thinks chat needs to be the interface is reason enough to be skeptical of the idea that chat needs to be the interface for everything.
The problem with chat is the shape of it. The way chat changes the shape of people to fit around the shape of the machine, when what we should be doing is changing the shape of the machine to fit around people.
Do you really want to spend your life in a room, at an office, sitting in a chair being told, "No, you're absolutely right!" all day, when you could be out there living?
There is a better way.
More on that later.