What do we lose when AI does our work?

Really struggling to follow what author is aiming to convey here.

The sentences seem coherent and the language register is sophisticated...but it just doesn't add up.

Guessing it's something about this flow club thing whatever that may be - some sort of context that the author has in his/her head that the reader does not.

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rickyyean 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I didn't do a good enough job articulating the feeling of seeing AI make all kinds of things for me but yet feeling slightly dreadful instead of more alive. I tried. Thanks for the comment

	▲	soundworlds 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think this a great point though. It's always worth asking what the purpose of innovation is. The end goal should always be to help people and societies thrive and feel vitality. If the goal becomes speed for its own sake, it is going in the wrong direction.

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nomel 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I miss reading human experiences, written by humans.

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rickyyean 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Thank you?

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dtran 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I usually skim/scan before reading anything. I used to do this to get a gist of what to expect, but now I do it to look for telltale signs of AI slop (and run through Pangram if I’m suspicious) before committing to reading

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rickyyean 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Claude tried to massively increase the scope of this essay after reviewing my first draft. In the editing process it also added a bunch of emdashes to my writing. It's very hard to resist.

	▲	brazukadev 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You should try writing about what we lose when we use AI to write blog posts.

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doc_ick 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Already outsourcing your work to ai? Good for you, hopefully you can enjoy that 10-15 minutes of irony.

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sublinear 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't understand these blog posts. Unless you're an absolute beginner, what is so hard about doing any of these tasks yourself or reviewing AI output?

AI won't think for you. It just (sort of) does work you delegate to it. It's from this perspective that you might get productivity gains, but the human in the loop is still the bottleneck. This doesn't mean you remove the human. It means the human decides how much they need AI.

There is no AI workflow that removes the human and magically does exactly what was intended. That's wishful thinking.