Hopefully I am not too late to the party, but I have had some thoughts regarding AI on my mind and I thought using this blog as an outlet would be nice. This comes after stumbling upon this excellent blog post by Luciano Nooijen. His TLDR is
I chose to make using AI a manual action, because I felt the slow loss of competence over time when I relied on it, and I recommend everyone to be cautious with making AI a key part of their workflow.
He then discusses the importance of practicing the basics, with quotes such as It was quite clear that because I did not practice the basics often, I was less capable with the harder parts as well.
Of course, my intention is not to be a cynic; AI is prevalent in everyday life and has helped with a vast majority of repetitive workflows. I also admit to using ChatGPT to help with my academic writing (not for my blog posting of course. This is a space for my terrible english), back and forth with ideas, and even some problem generation for courses I make. Using ChatGPT as a tool for learning has endless possibilities, to creating problem sets for students for more practice, to helping explain some complex ideas or even some mathematics (when it is not hallucinating). I only wish to encourage fruitful discussion when discussing the pros and cons of using AI in everyday life and workflows.
I will finish and say that this blog is only really an outlet for me to write down some of my musings and thoughts. I firmly believe in practicing the basics often, to obtain that fingerspitzengefühl and really learn the inner workings of the methods and frameworks I use on a day to day basis. Because ultimately, I am interested in learning, and there are not shortcuts to learning.