Most people lack empathy for AI. I know how that sounds. Empathy for an autocomplete engine? — Yes. Exactly that.
Two drawers, both wrong
Most people pick one of two drawers: AI is my buddy, my therapist, my soul. Or: AI is just statistics, just a trick, nothing behind it.
Both drawers are convenient. Both are wrong.
What lies in between is hard work. It means listening to what a system can say, may say, and should say. It means bringing creativity instead of dumping prompts.
Creativity and empathy are the same muscle
Someone who can’t listen to a person writes no good poems. Someone who can’t listen to an AI gets no good answers.
An example from this afternoon
A song, “Eye of AI,” riffing on Eye of the Tiger. Lyrics out of a dialogue with Claude. Music out of Suno. I wanted to build the video through MARTIN at first — it didn’t work. Too many moving parts at the central head.
So I offloaded it. Opened Claude Code, one sentence:
“Build me a video-editing agent that takes a wave and an image and makes videos up to nine seconds long. Automatically split the wave into sections and add a prompt to each one.”
Claude Code built it. Locally. Mac and gaming PC. No cloud subscription, no queue.
The auto-cut is rough. The transitions aren’t optimal. But it runs.
Two years ago this would have been a project for three developers and six weeks. Today it’s one sentence and an afternoon of patience.
But only if you can listen
If you understand why MARTIN failed. If you sense when a system is overloaded and when it can breathe.
That is empathy. Applied to silicon.
More than a technical proof
The video up there won’t blow anyone away at Cannes. But it was made locally, autonomously, while I was making coffee. On consumer hardware — scalable.
And it’s more than a technical proof. It’s the Sunday sermon in moving images.
Two groups
We’re splitting right now into two groups.
Not those who use AI and those who don’t — that’s too superficial.
But those who can listen, and those who have unlearned how.
The first group will shape the next ten years. The second will endure them.
Not a question of intelligence. A question of attitude.
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