Alex you make some great points here, but the one that truly stands out to me: remember to be the friction.
I'm not anti-AI. I spend much of my time working with it, and it extends my capabilities in ways I couldn't have imagined 5 years ago.
But I am staunchly pro-friction, because it's the *only* way we maintain our cognitive sovereignty.
I've been very torn in my own writing — figuring out how much to do "the old fashioned way" and how much to let AI build for me.
I often use AI to varying degrees, but always making sure the core ideas are mine. That said, the line where I call something "mine" has gotten very blurry — because in the process, I always gain some new perspectives I hadn't considered.
I still consider it a creative process, but one that requires a very different skillset from traditional writing.
If I had to label that, I'd call it "sparring" more than "writing".
I wrote this comment. No AI. And I left it messy, because there's something to be said for that too.
It's an act of subterfuge against my own perfectionism.
This is the entire challenge right here: How do we keep the learning while using it alongside the tool?
Alex you make some great points here, but the one that truly stands out to me: remember to be the friction.
I'm not anti-AI. I spend much of my time working with it, and it extends my capabilities in ways I couldn't have imagined 5 years ago.
But I am staunchly pro-friction, because it's the *only* way we maintain our cognitive sovereignty.
I've been very torn in my own writing — figuring out how much to do "the old fashioned way" and how much to let AI build for me.
I often use AI to varying degrees, but always making sure the core ideas are mine. That said, the line where I call something "mine" has gotten very blurry — because in the process, I always gain some new perspectives I hadn't considered.
I still consider it a creative process, but one that requires a very different skillset from traditional writing.
If I had to label that, I'd call it "sparring" more than "writing".
I wrote this comment. No AI. And I left it messy, because there's something to be said for that too.
It's an act of subterfuge against my own perfectionism.
//Scott Ω∴∆∅
Great article, Alex. The Market for Lemons analogy is petrifying, and feels right.