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The iceberg image is a bit more in the right direction. Some early research on creativity did seem to come back with the result "if you're happy you'll be more creative", but https://www.zorana-ivcevic-pringle.com/ dug a bit deeper and suggested that its about leveraging all sorts of emotions.
So broadly (maybe I'm stretching) it's about dragging the unconscious into consciousness, whatever it may be saying.
Most tech workers, especially those in bigger companies, are such a tiny cog in the wheel I can barely fathom it.
I wonder if there’s truth to the idea that the big companies were simply hiring as many people as they could so that at least their competitors wouldn’t have them.
I share your positivity, however I don’t think figuring out how to market through the noise is the important part.
LLMs don’t need to think, they just need to be a more efficient data retrieval system than what already exists (and what has already been sold to the highest bidder). With LLMs, I’ve find I’ve started reaching the corners of the internet, where the true lovers of knowledge are doing the work they have always been doing. Quality does eventually speak for itself, at least once we’re able to strip away the marketing (you mentioned Apple, do you believe they are truly a cut above, or is it just hype?)
If LLMs can filter the noise, build it and they will come might return as a valid way to be.