Why AI makes us smarter, not dumber – and what that has to do with your writing

Often people are being afraid, especially in recent times, that AI is going to make them dumber.

AI is going to take over jobs, is going to do a lot of tedious work that is mentally also challenging, but because people stop doing it, they just don't challenge themselves and they get dumber and are more reliant on artificial intelligence.

And I wonder, well, is that really a bad thing? For instance, I'm not really good at phrasing.

I'm rather all over the place.

One thinking leads to another, one thought leads to another.

And I'm not really concise.

What I'm saying and writing is not really intended for print.

I have great ideas, but by reiterating and by repeating my statements, my train of thought just does not reach the target audience.

And now, of course, back in the day, you just practiced a certain style over and over again.

And then you had it ready and used it.

It was basically the best that you could.

And especially in marketing or when you have a business, it's all the time a challenge to do it right.

There are so many places, especially when you are involved with online marketing.

Probably everybody is because even if you have an offline product or a real product, you still have to market it and then it comes down to the internet.

So there's just so many areas that can go wrong.

You have to choose ads, you have to choose how to word your ads, you have to think about how to design your product, how to do the legal work.

There's just so many areas, just for the simplest product that you come up with, that it's daunting.

And is it really so bad to just say at some point, well, "I will just have an AI do it"? You know, this one, this creation here, I did not use AI autocorrect for.

But most other texts, I just admit to myself, I'm not that good at communicating.

I don't come to a conclusion, I meander, I talk about unrelated things, I am distracted, the core message is lost.

And I think most people can relate.

And yes, I'm aware if AI or computers were destroyed, and I would have to go back to a typewriter, I would have to start at the same level I was before.

So the question really is, realizing that you just don't get better at it, even if you practice, and when you compare your version with the version that AI created for you, you think, this is just so much better than what I wrote.

Should we still say, no, I dismiss it because it's AI, and I don't want to be dependent, or just say, you know what, this is just how life is.

I could wait forever, I can practice and all of that, and it doesn't get better, why not just use this? Because ultimately, what is writing for? It's to transmit my ideas.

And when the way that I'm writing or thinking does not transmit ideas well, but I want to transmit my ideas, why not rely on help? I mean, ghostwriters existed for a long time, who wrote thesis or even apology letters, all kinds of things, where Ghostwriting pretty much was coined by Tim Ferriss.

So yeah, that's really the question.

Why do it yourself, when it's just frustrating, and you're not moving anywhere, and you're wasting time, and obviously the same with a lot of programming, like you just wanted it done, and how did it work? Well, you had to look it up, and you had to go through some tutorials, and they were out of date.

Now you just say, you know what, this is what I want, and you get it, called vibe-coding.

And I know exactly, without AI, I couldn't create those things that quickly.

I would be significantly slower and it wouldn't work, and I wouldn't know why, and it would just be a nightmare.