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The fight over whether AI is good or bad is the wrong fight. AI is a friction-removal engine, and there are two kinds of friction: the kind that is building you, and the kind that is only taxing you. Telling them apart, in the moment, is the whole skill.
Most defenses of AI are about productivity, and they are weak. The strong case is older and bigger: this is the next rung on a seventy-year ladder of removing effort that was never building anyone. Here it is, made at full strength.
AI does not destroy your work in front of you. It moves the cost somewhere you cannot see: to later, to the invisible, to the version of you that stops getting built. The strongest case against leaning on it, made in full.
A confession and a manifesto: living in the pages where AI-assisted content is forged, choosing intentionality over accident, and discovering why the difference between "slop" and craft has nothing to do with the tools.
The inside story of how ChatGPT happened. Genius Makers traces the researchers and rivalries at Google, OpenAI, and Meta that built modern AI.