Becoming Unaddicted to Shortcuts

I joined ChatGPT not long after it came out on November 30th 2022.

Over the space of 12 months it went from novelty to necessity.

Much like the mobile phone before it.

And personal music before that (how did I once walk around without my own personal soundtrack to life?!)

Technology (and the slew of media that follows any gold rush) will tell me to "keep up or fall behind."

And before I know it, my actual skill becomes a "series of shortcuts"

Tracks. Apps. Prompts.

We can now "teach skills" to AI.

Instead of learning the skills ourselves.

Instead of taking the time to earnestly learn the foundations.

The core aspects of our craft.

What seems increasingly absurd.

Is our fear of AI becoming more human than we are.

As we spend our humanity, teaching AI to be more human.

Rather than becoming more that humanity can be ourselves.

So this is a footnote to myself.

To write everyday.

Without AI.

Without prompts and "shortcuts"

Just write.

Because I'm realising I would rather have my own unique thoughts.

Than wait for an AI to have it for me.

It just seems more fulfilling.