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"My students (...) mistakenly view a confident, well-written essay as evidence of the quality of their ideas. They see the AI as cleaning those ideas up, getting them through that uncomfortable stretch of having to turn those ideas into prose. What the students miss is that (...) the very act of struggling with how to express what they think is an important part of the process. It’s how they (...) examine their hypotheses, and actually figure out what they think." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/24/should-you-use-ai
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Lambert Heller · 5w
While I like the quoted part of his essay, it feels much like Bruce Schneier contradicts his own "gym vs work" metaphor. Struggling to find out if your own ideas can be understood by readers, and therefore if they ultimately make sense at all, is not the kind of activity you have ultimately finished...