AI is so convenient that it's boring. On the emptiness of 'being able to do anything.'

I had a thought recently.

Isn't AI so convenient that it's actually boring?

Well, of course, I am heavily dependent on AI myself.

I can't create articles or apps without AI. I am a person who relies entirely on AI.

Admitting that, I will be honest.

It's boring.

Is being able to do anything really interesting?

The evolution of AI over the last year or two has been truly insane.

People say Japan is lagging behind the rest of the world, but even so, those who can use it are already mastering it.

Most work can now be done by AI. Of course, there are parts that require human hands, but most things can be automated. And personally, I think it's overwhelmingly faster and more accurate than what a human can do.

I'm currently developing apps, and even though I had almost no programming experience, I was able to create things similar to what engineers make in a short time just by studying a little.

When you think about it calmly, this is amazing.

But at the same time,something is missing.

The time I used to spend groaning and thinking with my own head is now replaced by answers that appear in an instant when I ask AI. It's definitely easier. But I don't have the feeling of having 'arrived there myself.'

Is there anyone else who understands this feeling?

When I reread it, it didn't feel like my own writing.

I'll talk about the part that was the hardest.

I've been writing on note every day for over 300 days, and I have over 1,500 followers. My monthly PV has also exceeded 10,000.

Yet, there was a period when I didn't get any likes at all.

When I looked at other creators, there were articles with over 100 likes even though they had fewer followers than me. I kept wondering, why?

And then, one day, I reread my past articles and felt a chill.

They all have the same scent. They are neatly organized, easy to read, but completely devoid of emotion.

A long line of sentences that didn't feel like I had written them.

I wrote an article before about how 'Chappy syntax is gross'—Chappy syntax refers to the harmless, honor-student-like writing that AI produces—and I didn't write that because I was annoyed by someone else's article, but because I read my own and felt genuinely sick.

It's too polished. Too clean. It's the same no matter who writes it.

As a result of relying too much on AI, my own words were nowhere to be found.

Socially, fake videos and misinformation created by AI are becoming a problem, but honestly, for me,the fact that my own writing was becoming fake was far scarier.

If it's the same no matter who writes it, don't I become unnecessary?

When you write with AI, you end up with the same conclusions, the same expressions, and structures you've seen somewhere before.

I think this isn't just about note; the same thing is happening on X and YouTube.

It's becoming impossible to tell if videos are real or AI-generated, and even TV CGI, which used to be easy to spot, is now hard to distinguish.

I think it's an amazing era. But behind that, a sense of emptiness—'what is the point of me doing this?'—is slowly creeping in.

I believe that in the coming era, the difference will be made by whether or not you can express originality.

Anyone can use AI. If you use the same tools, you get the same output. The question is whether you have 'something only you can write.'

Your own experiences, your own failures, your own words. I think the messiness and uncoolness that AI can't produce might actually become a weapon.

I'll be honest.

I've written a lot here, but if you ask me if I'm going to stop using AI, I won't.

Because it's convenient.

I can't develop apps without AI, and I get help from AI for article research too.

But I've decided to stop 'leaving everything to it'.

Do the thinking part yourself. Choose the words yourself.

I myself haven't mastered this at all yet. My dependence on AI remains unchanged, and if asked whether I could write this article entirely on my own, I wouldn't be confident.

But at the very least, I think the fact that I can feel that it's 'boring' is probably the first step.

People who just think convenient things are convenient don't even feel that it's boring in the first place.

There is no particularly useful information in this post.

I just wrote this because I would be happy if there were others who felt the same way: 'AI is convenient, but isn't it somehow boring?'

Have you thought with your own head and created something recently?

When was the last time you wrote a sentence without AI that you could truly call 'your own words'?

Your likes, follows, and comments are always encouraging.

🌱 Sapocchi