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Learning with Genies

What skills do we keep when answers are cheap? When genies (or calculators, or GPS, or AI) can do things for us, how do we decide what’s worth learning deeply vs. what we’re happy to delegate? How do we maintain judgment and taste when we can outsource execution? And how do we avoid becoming the humans in Wall-E, and is that even a legit concern?

Working with Genies

These AI tools, or genies, can help some work we do move faster, but how do we use them well? What are the pitfalls? What will really rocket you forward faster? My exploration of this.