I don’t like generative AI because of how it works. You have close to 0% agency over the final result. When getting a human to do the same work, you’re bound by

I don’t like generative AI because of how it works. You have close to 0% agency over the final result. When getting a human to do the same work, you’re bound by some social convention which gives the process a more deterministic execution. Maybe you’ll learn how to build the correct prompt to get a more deterministic result, but I doubt it will be worth the effort. If I write something, the less thing I want is AI to rewrite it. An editor (any human) will tell you why you need to rephase a sentece or eliminate a paragraph, and in the process you grow. I don’t want it to summarize for me, because I won’t know what it threw away. I don’t want it to generate pictures, because there’s no meaning in them. I don’t want it to generate code, because we could do with less code in software (Why a text editor needs to include a whole browser with it?). Anything we do as human is a series of composable steps, each with its purpose, and mastery is the ability to execute them unconsciously. Get AI to do it and you’ve lost both meaning and mastery.