Is AI Making You Smarter or Just Lazy?

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24 Jul 2025, 01:32

Is AI Making You Smarter or Just Lazy?

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AI is cool. It can help you write faster, make designs, or even build code without needing to know much. It feels powerful, like having a smart assistant in your pocket. But here’s the real question: if AI is doing the work, what are you learning?

Getting Too Comfortable

Not long ago, writing a blog post meant thinking, researching, and organizing your ideas. You had to use your brain. Now AI can do that in seconds. That sounds great, but it also means you might stop thinking for yourself. When everything becomes easy, you stop growing.

Letting AI do the work for you might feel easy, but it slowly takes you out of the learning process
Letting AI do the work for you might feel easy, but it slowly takes you out of the learning process

Skills Fade When You Don’t Use Them?

If you don’t use a skill, you start to lose it. Writers lose their style. Designers stop noticing details. Programmers forget how to solve bugs. It's like going to the gym and watching someone else lift weights. You don’t get stronger just by looking.

Google Made Us Forget Stuff, AI Might Be Worse?

Remember when people said Google made us forget phone numbers and directions? AI is doing the same thing, but on a bigger scale. It gives you full answers, not just help. That means you might stop asking questions or trying to understand things on your own.

What You Could Be Losing?

  • Problem-solving: Sure, AI can fix your code. But do you know how to fix it without help?

  • Writing: If AI writes everything, is it still your idea? Your voice?

  • Thinking for yourself: If answers sound smart, it’s easy to stop asking if they’re true.

  • Being creative: AI uses old data to make something new. But real creativity comes from people trying, failing, and experimenting.

What Can You Do About It  ?

AI is just a tool. It’s not better than your brain. You can still use it, but don’t let it do everything for you.

Here are a few tips:

  • Let AI give you ideas, but try writing things in your own way

  • Practice doing things without it sometimes. It's slow, but it helps you learn

  • Ask “why” more often. Don’t just accept answers

  • Give yourself time during the day where you think or create without AI

Old-school effort still wins when it comes to real learning.
Old-school effort still wins when it comes to real learning.

Think about this

AI is not the enemy. But relying on it too much might hurt you in the long run. The smartest people in the future won’t be the ones who use AI all the time. They’ll be the ones who know when not to use it.