A US Media Interview About Claude Blue
A Reddit post drew a US journalist whose questions were philosophical, not technical, and the story that landed hardest was a 93-year-old using ChatGPT.
Most of the questions were about philosophy, not technology. Why choose the painful path? If the people building the future of AI are depressed, is that future okay?
How the interview happened
We never expected a Reddit post to travel to the United States. A journalist at an independent outlet read it, then read the whole blog, then asked for an interview. His questions went deep enough into the details that the subject clearly lands in the US as hard as it does in Korea. Mostly they weren't technical questions but philosophical ones. Why pick the painful road? And if the people building the future of AI are depressed, is that future alright?
Wanting to stand at the front line of trends
I started on the business side rather than as an engineer. My first company was a messenger-based super app in Asia, which I got to partly through a close friend who'd moved into tech before me. The odd chapter is the one in the middle, where loving music enough pulled me into K-pop. The two worlds look nothing alike, but the domain was always strategy and marketing, so the work itself never really changed.
What the two opposite-looking industries shared was that both sat right where trends were moving. K-pop was pushing into the US mainstream then, while the tech company before it was expanding across Asia. Then came 2024 and a move into an AI startup, right as ChatGPT was exploding, because putting AI to work inside a business felt like the next front line.
Was that a bet on stability? Not really. Early in a career the younger you are, the more risk you should be taking, so challenge yourself and stand at the front while you still have the room. It comes back to you eventually, which is not something I've changed my mind about.
A 93-year-old grandfather
When did AI first feel genuinely different? The first time I used ChatGPT. Similar services had been around before it, but the gap between before and after was wide enough to feel in your hands.
The bigger shock was my grandfather, who's 93 with no tech background whatsoever and started using ChatGPT actively the moment it showed up. His head is full of questions, and age had made them hard to get out in speech. Talking to an AI turned out to be far easier for sorting his thoughts, getting answers, being understood.
That was the moment I understood that what AI changes might not stop at tech or business, that it might be the whole shape of how people live.
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This post is based on an interview with a US independent journalist who reached out after reading the Claude Blue post on Reddit.
