@GergelyOrosz: I find myself doing a lot better work, being more satisfied, and also learn a lot more+faster when I do *the hard work*…
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Gergely Orosz shares his experience that doing hard work without fully outsourcing to AI leads to better results, satisfaction, and learning, warning against turning off one's brain when using AI.
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I find myself doing a lot better work, being more satisfied, and also learn a lot more+faster when I do the hard work and don’t outsource it to AI.
As in, I’ll use AI as a tool with substasks, additional research: but I don’t turn off my brain or kick back, assuming it can do the work for me.
Every time I “hand over the” hard work part to AI and mentally turn off, I either regret it or find myself eventually needing to go back and spend more time on it.
I also see slop work coming out from people who assume the AI does better work than they would.
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