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AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy

Simon Willison highlights Charity Majors’ framing of AI enthusiasts and skeptics as both responding to real existential threats. Enthusiasts see teams gaining discontinuous capability by leaning into AI, making inaction dangerous in competitive markets. Skeptics see faster code production eroding shared understanding, reliability, institutional knowledge, and on-call sustainability. The core challenge is organizational: there is no natural feedback loop connecting these perspectives.