Your brain is corporeal, still, best augment it now
To summarize, AI is here. It is everywhere. It’s going to only be more so. It is being used right now to even write this. We can’t avoid it. We have to learn how to live with it and use it properly or go back to pencils and blue books, proctored exams, and lean more heavily into live (unassisted) discussion and presentation.
by Patrick Rhone, Thoughts on AI learning
I know, I know—I’m gutting the mystery by grabbing the last paragraph, but hell, the whole work is worth digesting, even if it tastes like static and ozone. AI—great and terrible—has become inevitable, slithering into the seams of reality. I’m genuinely staggered by how fast it’s happening, like waking up to find the stars rearranged overnight. At work, execs have been pushing on us using it as much as possible as a way to learn the best way to make these blood sacrifices12. The pressure from top level daemons, for better or worse, can make things like this happen quickly and we have to adapt.
I used to scoff, a skeptic. But then I started using AI the way a pyro uses a match—to ignite something. Not to finish thoughts, but to start them. It busts me out of blank-page paralysis, or summons scholarly articles like some profane oracle of JSTOR. But I use it to learn—not to think for me. And that distinction, dear reader, is everything. Because I fear the horde who won’t question, who build their ideas on foundations of misfire and mimicry. Bad output birthing worse output until the whole edifice collapses in a dumb, recursive scream.
Footnotes
I think it's mostly to learn the tools but also a way if continuing to keep the current incredibly fast-paced release cycle and "stay lean".↩
I hate this phrase - just say you don't want to hire more people and do better to atially support people. Where I work, many of us love our jobs in a way I don't think typical in the corporate world. Make sure you don't fuck it up, management.↩