> The issue isn't AI, it's effort asymmetry

Effort asymmetry is inheret to AI's raison d'être. (One could argue that's true for most consumer-facing technology.)

The problem is AI.

I’ve been thinking about this idea a lot. I have a phrase that I’ve taken to using. Leverage Engineering.

I think AI is going to create a whole new class of people that take a tiny output and turn it into an outsized output.

When this works, it is really nice. Think Cursor, Lovable, or OpenClaw.

When it doesn’t work though, things get ugly too. The same power that allows a small team to build a billion dollar company also allows rouge agents to industrialize their efforts as well.

Combine this with the rise of headless browsers and you have a dangerous cocktail.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we see regulation or licensing around frontier AI APIs in the near future.

The issue is not AI. It's our incentives that make having contributions to a well known open source project a currency for getting a job.