More Tokens Won't Replace Your Point of View

Fable is making our work worse.

Or have we just collectively accepted that better models need less review?

I have been noticing this everywhere: people who delegate technical work to AI (especially AI engineers) seem to produce worse outputs on everything else. Even something like the descriptions in a GitHub repo. The code is fine, great even. It’s everything around it that is slipping.

The results are bland and general. No personality, no life.

On the other hand, the less “technical” people I work closely with have improved in both quality AND productivity.

I don’t yet know exactly why, but here’s my attempt to put it all together…

P.s. This podcast episode is an experiment. It was entirely generated cloning my own voice on ElevenLabs... can you believe it? It is insanely good...