And it shows.
A few days before I had quit my first job, someone else resigned too.
And they sent the usual goodbye email:
๐ โBig love to the team.
๐ Grateful for the memories.
๐ Best boss ever.โ
I walked up to her and said, โ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ง๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ข๐ช!โ
She laughed and said, โ๐๐ฐ๐ญ. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ข๐ช ๐บ๐ข๐ข๐ณ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐'๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ด๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ง๐ง?โ
And she is right: her mail was the exact opposite of how she usually is.
And ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญโ๐ฌ the problem with AI.
Nonetheless, I myself have used ChatGPT and Gemini to no end.
๐ โWrite a stern but polite reply to...โ
๐ โDraft a professional email for...โ
๐ โMake this sound better.โ
Until one day, I froze when I had to write a heart-felt letter to someone I deeply cared for and about whom ChatGPT had 0 context.
No tool, no prompt. Just me and a blank screen.
So suddenly, I couldnโt write. At all.
And mind you. ๐ ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ.
There is movement, emotion and a weird sense of excitement in the way I write.
But here I was: Just not able to think because I was so damn used to Ai.
And so hereโs my unsolicited advice:
ChatGPT is making you dumb but you can very easily prevent it.
Use AI. But ๐๐จ๐งโ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง.
Because sounding smart isnโt the same as being smart.
And sounding good doesnโt mean it sounds like you :)
P.S. Ignore the grammatical misses but I just found a piece I wrote some 6 years back (at a time when ChatGPT was not so much of a luxury that it is today ;))
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