Long term, I think the best value AI gives us is a poweful tool to gain understanding. I think we are going to see deep understanding turn into the output goal of LLMs soon. For example, the blocker on this project was the dense C code with 400 rules. Work with LLMs allowed the structure and understanding to be parsed and used to create the tool, but maybe an even more useful output would be full documentation of the rules and their interactions.

This could likely be extracted much easier now from the new code, but imagine API docs or a mapping of the logical ruleset with interwoven commentary - other devtools could be built easily, bug analysis could be done on the structure of rules independent of code, optimizations could be determined on an architectural level, etc.

LLMs need humans to know what to build. If generating code becomes easy, codifying a flexible context or understanding becomes the goal that amplifies what can be generated without effort.

For $20 a month, I can plan and implements a couple features in 4 hours with Claude. Then I have to wait.

For $20 a month, I can plan and implement thousands of features using Composer 2 or Auto with Cursor. The usage limits are insanely higher. Yes, the depth of understanding is not Opus 4.6, but most work doesn't need that. And the work that does need it I pass to Claude.

I can code 8 hours a day using LLMs as my primary driver spending just $40 a month.

Did you see the other post about this where the guys showed a Flock camera pointed at a playground, so any pedo can see when kids are there and not attended?

Or how it has become increasingly trivial to identify by face or license plate such that combining tools reaches "movie Interpol" levels, without any warrant or security credentials?

If Big Brother surveillance is unavoidable I don't think "everyone has access" is the solution. The best defense is actually the glut of data and the fact nobody is actively watching you picking your nose in the elevator. If everyone can utilize any camera and its history for any reason then expect fractal chaos and internet shaming.