Every automation wave produces people who genuinely can't imagine what comes next, and they're always right that something dies and always wrong that nothing replaces it. The deeper issue though is that you've started measuring yourself with the machine's ruler. Heidegger called this "enframing". Technology doesn't just change what you do, it changes how you evaluate everything, including yourself. Once you accept output speed as the metric you've already lost the argument on its own terms.

The kid learning french and dutch shouldn't try to out-translate an API. He's trying to exist in someone else's world, adapting to someone's culture gives and edge that's not easily measurable.

I don't think the answer is to out-compete the machine. It's probably more about being intentional about which efforts still matter to you personally, regardless of whether a tool could do it faster.

The kid learning French and Dutch is a good example actually. He's not doing it to translate. He's doing it to connect with someone. At the end of the day, there will always be things only humans can do, a touch of human spirit. Sorry for being too cheesy

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