The intangible cost of using AI every day: losing the human spark
A reflective piece exploring the intangible human costs of relying on generative AI tools in daily work. While AI provides speed, scale, and efficiency, the author argues that something subjective and valuable is lost — perhaps the human spark, the process of thinking through problems, or the meaning found in the journey itself. The article uses the metaphor of two brothers climbing a mountain to illustrate that the process (the climb) matters as much as the outcome (the view).
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"the document isn't the point"
What we lose when we use AI every day.
Using generative tools leads us to deprioritize one of the mo
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