My hopes for AI

A lot of the excitement and the hype around AI producing code, particularly at the C-levels of the world, comes in some flavor of “Imagine how productive we can be” — some might mean, “imagine how much money we can save” — and certainly there are reasons to believe that AI will completely take over coding in the near future, there are also reasons to believe it is just a bubble, that AI is helpful until it isn´t, and that at least this attempt at AI will never be capable of creating a real, complex production system that is truly maintainable and capable of growing, we have all experienced that when vibe coding stops being fun and turns into a debugging nightmare.

I certainly hope AI does fulfill its promise of managing to create these systems, but not because I want to save money or become more productive, but because I believe it will unlock new possibilities for Humans to come back to what I believe makes us humans: Creativity. I don´t think productivity is an inherent human need or trait, I think creativity is, and it is core to the experience of being a human being, we don´t need to be productive at being creative, we just need to be, but in a world with so many distractions and so much demand for executing, for performing, we often disconnect from our creativity and put our energy at the service of other things.

I also hope AI gives us more free time, that this need for being productive and performant goes away and enables us to just wander outside, because when we physically wander, our mind also starts wandering, and that´s also when creativity comes to us, like when you were trying to come up with a solution for something the whole day just to get an incredible novel solution randomly while showering.