AI: a lever, not a crutch

AI is the most brutal sobriety test we have known: it amplifies what you feed it. A clear system gets faster. A confused system produces chaos faster. The question is not “should we adopt it?” but “what will it amplify in us?”.

The lever: delegate execution, keep understanding

Used as a lever, AI executes what you already know how to judge: it writes, codes, summarises — and you validate, because you understand what is produced. The gain is real and cumulative: you go faster on what you master.

The crutch: delegating judgment

Used as a crutch, AI produces what you can no longer evaluate. The text looks good, the code seems to work — nobody can say why. It is the same drift as the opaque provider or the metric replacing sensation: the day the tool is wrong, nobody is left to notice.

The sober rule

Delegate to AI everything you could do yourself given more time. Keep for yourself what you would not know how to verify. And if a task escapes you entirely, the need is not a better prompt — it is to understand your own system first.