I am not using any AI anymore and I more productive

the following thoughts are true and understandable, even though the form is not good yet. But I don’t have other time to dedicate to it now. you get it or you don’t

More than two weeks ago, I stopped using AI completely. I started writing my documents myself. I started taking notes myself. The results are astonishing. Spiritually. Yes, I am not a good writer. I make a lot of spelling mistakes and English is not my first language. And yet the way I write is better than Reddit/Linkedin sounding sentences. The kind of sentences the LLMs produce.

The reason I stopped is I felt weak, a weasel, and (honestly) less of a man. You present yourself with that kind of writing ¹, and you are that kind of person. I was never able to 100% justify the content of an AI-written document to someone else. I always felt on the verge of “getting caught”, as if I were a small child. And it’s impossible for me to own it, as it is impossible for any self-respecting person to say “yeah this is badly written and does not represent my position, but assume I write and think this in this way. It’s faster”

Ditching AI is part of a process of getting better standards for oneself.

LLMs produce both reading- and writing-fatigue, even if you write less. This is common theme in the modern world: we are understanding that stress and “burnout” come from doing meaningless things, not from doing them “a lot”. That’s because LLMs writings have so many filler words, meaningless or nearly meaningless locutions like “security boundary”, “It’s not X, it’s Y”, “invariant”, “load bearing” etc. You either change all of them or you present a badly written document. If you read LLM generated documents/content for a living, you will lose taste, start skimming documents without reading and will present a document with a load bearing assumption that does not make sense. If you have to edit them, you edit stupid parts that shouldn’t be there in the first place. Can’t LLM just stop using them?. Automation is an everlasting drug.

Sure it’s usefult for coding. I don’t code much to be honest. And even there, I always feel embarassed when I don’t know parts of what I created. It’s not like using a library for which you are supposed to not reproduce the internals, though even there you should know how it works. It’s a different feeling of “I should know what this piece of code does and why it’s here”

I have a deep feeling that LLMs/agents speed things up inefficiently, mainly for people that don’t know the field. Overall they are useful for the general population since generally nobody optimize his tools anymore, and nobody is an expert in everything. Consequently for each person there is a field where AIs are better. “Better” does not mean professional level though.