Thinking Next to a Machine
I use AI every day for work. The strangest thing it has done is make me clearer about what my own judgment actually is.
AI & Automation
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I use AI every day for work. The strangest thing it has done is make me clearer about what my own judgment actually is.
Most AI content makes it sound like the future arrives in one perfect prompt. My actual use of AI is a lot less glamorous: messy filings, broken code, bad OCR, skeptical clients, ugly spreadsheets, and a lot of human verification.
The most useful way to think about AI right now is to compare it to electricity. Electricity was a marvel when it arrived. People paid to watch lights turn on. Within a generation, nobody noticed it anymore; they just flipped a switch. The marvel had become infrastructure.