
When Not to Use AI: 5 Tasks I Now Do Manually on Purpose
AI can do almost everything for you. That's exactly the problem. Five tasks I now keep manual—not out of nostalgia, but because outsourcing them costs more than it saves.
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AI can do almost everything for you. That's exactly the problem. Five tasks I now keep manual—not out of nostalgia, but because outsourcing them costs more than it saves.

After 18 months of daily ChatGPT use, here's my actual workflow—not theory, but the specific prompts and patterns I use for writing, coding, and thinking work.

I've used both ChatGPT and Claude extensively for coding and thinking work. Here's my honest take on where each one shines—and where it falls short.

Everyone's learning prompt engineering. But the skill that actually drives AI value is problem framing—and almost nobody is developing it.

Information consumption isn't learning. In an age of infinite content, reading less—but better—is the path to genuine understanding.

The real threat isn't job loss—it's cognitive atrophy. AI will change how you think, and you need to be intentional about which changes you accept.