When AI crawls a million websites per second, is it madness for a person to spend all day looking at just one webpage?
No.
Like a pottery artisan touching clay in front of a wheel, he touches HTML. Line by line, tag by tag. He savors what AI parses in 0.001 seconds for 8 hours.
Why?
Silence is needed here. Hasty answers are forbidden.
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What he seeks is not data.
It's the breath of a developer.
Traces of contemplation engraved in code.
Jokes hidden in comments.
Unfinished dreams whispered by leftover TODOs.
We have experienced such an era. After the industrial revolution, the value of handicrafts soared as machines could make everything. Imperfect, slow, humanly valuable things.
Digital artisans are masters of inefficiency.
Evangelists of slowness.
Guardians of depth.
What do they create?
- A custom crawler for just one person
- Filters that extract specific emotions
- Archives defying the passage of time
- A museum of deleted things
The next seed to sow: But what if AI learns even the artisan spirit? What if algorithms become 'human imperfection'? What will remain for us then...