Are we in charge of our AI tools or are they in charge of us?

Sorry, Nick, I think de-skilling is real.

And what Nita and Eric draw attention to is a gap or a shift or a change in education.

And today in these early stages, where there are so few practitioners, it's up to us to figure out pedagogy around how we maintain our skills.

So I'll share one of mine, which is this.

This is my fountain pen.

And I spend a lot of time writing in fountain pen with the computer turned off.

And thinking about the experiment Nita ran with her her students.

Yesterday, I had a session with one of my colleagues where we jointly worked on a problem in silence, on paper, no computers, no phones for a couple of hours, and then reconvened after that.

And that's something we do in my team quite a lot, because maybe it's the wrong thing to do.

Maybe it isn't effective, but it's our gesture at understanding exactly this de-skilling, this sloppy vibing that has you moving up further and further away from your own mental capacities and what you can try to achieve.

But aren't you also doing the opposite, Azeem? I mean, you've been writing about how you're trying to get your AI to write for you and how you're trying to get it to be a better stylist.

And writing is thinking, right? And if we de-skill our writing, we're de-skilling our thinking.

Oh, I'm going to push back on that one for a minute, Nick.

I've heard that too many times now, and I think it's crap.

Crap? Yeah.

Here, let me tell you why.