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Everyone just found a free homework machine.
Well. Almost free. Almost a homework machine.
And now the entire industry is in a race to be first to fully hand over the homework — better agent, better harness, better prompt, better model. Every week, a new winner. Every week, the same broken output.
Rob Maas pointed me to this opinion piece and I loved it: The Eternal Sloptember
George Hotz just called this out in “The Eternal Sloptember.” He’s right. The slop is real. The damage to organizations is real. But I want to sharpen the diagnosis: this is a scoping problem. The world found a powerful tool and immediately decided it must be a replacement.
Here’s the thing — I’ve never moved through my own work this fast. I genuinely love these tools. But amplifiers don’t replace musicians. They make them louder.
The companies sprinting model-to-model aren’t innovating. They’re gambling. Desperately looking for the workflow that finally fires the humans — and drowning in slop while the people who understood augmentation two years ago pull further ahead every quarter.
Stop chasing replacement. Start mastering augmentation.
The moat isn’t the model. It’s the human who knows how to use it.
