It really is a serious question we should be asking ourselves. As the tools ingest more and become more capable, will the work we once loved still light us up? Or will a bunch of us find ourselves opting out, simply because the new version of creativity just doesn't make us feel anything anymore? And in that case, what does the future look like for them? And if you think about it, what does your future look like then?

But then, not everyone is going to love that work. It's not going to fulfill a lot of people. So when I think about AI triggered displacement, I'm thinking less about raw productivity now and more about job satisfaction related displacement. Some people just won't enjoy the work being asked of them.

Same goes for art. For music. Even for writing. Much of the process of exploration and editing is being handed over to the machine and the creative role is to bring taste to direct it instead of actually implementing it. Still creative work. But very different shape.

That's not to say it isn't creative work. It is creative work to think about architecture and tasks and to write it down clearly in a structured manner. But it's a very different shape from the kind of creativity we associate with software development as it is today

Take software dev for example. There was a thread discussing how to get the maximum out of cursor. The more I read it and the more I compared it to other hype threads out there, the more I realized something. People are actively trying to get us to the point where manually dropping into the code to fix things will likely be considered a bug. Instead it's biasing towards fine tuning support documentation (CLAUDE MD), detailing out todos, and making sure the agent didn't break functionality.