🤖 We live in an age where an AI tool can do in seconds what would take us hours, days, or even weeks to accomplish.
What is even more concerning is that it can probably do it better than us, taking care of several minor and major things we never even thought about. Our solutions might be buggy and ineffective, based solely on our experience, whereas the tool's solutions could be more objective, productive, and effective.
This wonderful technology has redefined the way work is produced, and companies are now demanding more from us. They want foolproof, high-quality output in less time than we could ever have imagined. We not only have to learn these tools but also master them to survive in this new era of jobs.
This is extremely disturbing to the idea of fulfillment.
What this era has brought, more than ever, is a conflict between producing work and finding fulfillment in producing that work.
It has taken away the fulfillment of creating something ourselves and the experience of walking that journey from Point A to Point B. There is no fulfillment in progress anymore. We are producing so-called quality work, but we are not learning much in the process. We are working on autopilot.
It is ridiculous to even think about what is happening.
On our resumes, our skill sets shine and look bigger and deeper, but in reality, our actual skills may have decreased significantly. Our basics, our foundations, have crumbled or, worse, were never built in the first place.
We are under the illusion that we know more because we are producing more. The only problem? We are not the ones producing it. The tool is.
We have become handicapped by the very convenience that was supposed to make our lives easier. We can no longer perform simple tasks without it.
The reality is that, after five years of working through these tools, you might have a powerful resume to show but a below-average real skill set and little confidence in your own abilities.
Just because you were able to generate Angular applications, screens, and modules does not mean you have mastered Angular.
Learning and mastery come from experiencing the journey. You are generating the code, not experiencing the process of creating it. You are not building muscle memory.
You are handicapped by the illusion of being more than you actually are.
It is like showing off your cool solo trips on social media while hiding or escaping the reality of being alone, broke, and emotionally shattered.
There is a desperate need to take hold of ourselves and stop depending on these tools for everything.
We need to take a step back and understand which parts of our work we should use them for.
AI's impact on our world is inescapable, but our attitude toward it is not. We can change our approach whenever we want. We still have the brains and the strength to channel its power, using it where we should and refraining from using it where we shouldn't.
We have to take a step back and stop using it in areas of our primary interest. We should learn slowly, as we are supposed to, and earn our progress.
We have to learn to enjoy the journey of learning something: to struggle, to feel stupid, to find our way, and to pave our own unique path that we can look back on and feel proud of.
🚶 Walk your journey on foot, not on the vehicle of tools.
Feel the trees, the ground, the road, the hurdles, the rain, the sandstorms, the river, the travellers, the air, and the scenery.
Find your fulfillment in work again.
P.S. I wrote this piece myself rather than asking a tool to write it. I did ask it to correct my grammar, though. In that, I am actually bad. I have started learning grammar, though. I hope I get a hold of it in the future and skip the tools for it, too. 🙂
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Lots of Love ❤️
Ankit Khera