Living Through the AI Revolution: Reflections on Creativity, Balance, and the Modern Gold Rush
A poetic reflection on living through a technological revolution, this entry explores the rapid transformation brought by AI, the allure and risks of innovation, and the search for meaning and balance amid accelerating change. Blending personal contemplation with meditations on design, creativity, and the abstractions of modern life, it offers an intimate snapshot of the present moment at the edge of possibility.
I tingle at times, knowing I’m part of something so historic, so grand, and I’m participating directly at the front and center—seeing the potential. How about patterns within microservices architecture that could benefit from design when pushed to the limit? I’ve never seen something move and change so fast, on so many levels, and to witness the benefits from tools built with AI.
And in some ways, it’s a race now. I have limited years—and even more limited energy—but AI is an enabler to do more, to do it smarter. But being in a time doesn’t always clearly say what that time was and where we are headed.
So what is increasing? What you can produce, in terms of quality and quantity. You can also combine this with creativity. It was a lot of fun seeing how the AI would get through problems, figuring them out—sometimes admirably. Once cost reduces and speed grows, that will be crazy.
The foundational knowledge can be used in very powerful ways to drive practical results. Imagine—loading up on that foundation in this day and age, learning how to work with these tools, so that when the time is right, you’re positioned and prepared. There is a gold rush fever to all of this. And it’s easy to lose one’s footing and get off balance—from those other things that are important.
But work has never been so exciting, and it’s all going where I was hoping it would—with AI bringing a revolution in learning, massive growth, and change for humankind. As we start to look at applications, and where the domains and design might influence implementation. Yes, domain-driven design—what is that, and why should I care?
What I’d like to do. What I can do. What I can keep on doing.
Physical limitation and the need for sleep are near incapacitating me, with the siren calls of shut-eye. A nice film to wind the day up and fall into a delirious, all-night slumber—a sleep made sweet by the lack of sleep the night before.
Even my original intent here on this page has been somewhat lost, yet how grand a search for truly new and original thought. If that can be had—or exists.
The cold air from the machine to keep it running. It gets very hot when it thinks just like we do. And even that cost feels abstracted. This is the age of grand abstraction. Of thought, of systems, of beautiful design, grand unified patterns.