Whether you are terrified that maybe AI won't get better, or actively glazing OpenClaw for being your new life manager we can all agree—things are accelerating.
Whether that's good or bad mostly depends on what color your blinders are.
Traveling at mach-Opus, shipping at the speed of thought, has trade-offs. You can now build 10 features in the time it took to previously finish planning one. Despite what everyone on the Orange Site would have you believe, most of this shipping is happening without huge trade-offs. Yeah, the code maybe sprawls a bit more than it used to, and yes, your craft is dead, but unfortunately, the economy does not care about craft—it cares about value delivery!
Adding value through subtraction is now more valuable than ever. Why? Because no one's default instinct is to do less. Attempt to set your Grandmother up with Facebook. You'll quickly realize that, yeah, things actually were better in 2010. Zuckerberg didn't destroy Facebook, "more" did.
The final form of "more" isn't utility, it's just... more. But cutting, shaping, honing, and whittling ideas down to their bare essentials: this creates simple solutions.
This is a "peri-mortem"—written to remind myself right now. I'm writing this because I'm still building things just because I can. I'm running 6 tabs at once with Opus constantly churning. I'm battling mental fatigue from traveling at speeds beyond my comprehension.
I'm starting to prune more, and ship less.