AI is the Software. You are the Hardware.
AI won’t replace humans — but it will redefine their role. A deep dive into abstraction, specialization, and what AI is really doing to us.
AI won’t replace humans — but it will redefine their role. A deep dive into abstraction, specialization, and what AI is really doing to us.
To set the context, I need to start with history, and I’ll try to keep it concise. So, please extend your attention spans for a bit — I promise it will make sense in a moment, and it’ll reframe how you think about AI.
In the early days of computing, hardware was the hero — but software gradually took over as the faster, cheaper, and more flexible way to build things. Hardware didn’t disappear; it became specialized, modular, and increasingly abstracted. The focus shifted from knowing how to build a circuit to knowing which chipset or module to use — and from “how” to “what.” Still, without understanding the how, customizing the what remains difficult.
As the software industry exploded, it brought a fair amount of slop with it — from the dot-com bubble to lingering copy-paste digital solutions in regions that came online later. Even today, you still hear “your business needs a website” as if that’s reason enough.
