AI made generation cheap. It did not make judgment cheap. (opens in new tab)

AI made a lot of my work faster. It did not make the week feel lighter. That gap matters, because it is where most AI adoption advice gets too optimistic. The visible cost of producing work goes down. The hidden cost of deciding whether that work is right often goes up. After looking back at my own production work, I changed the rule: I only hand a task to AI when there is a machine-checkable gate on the way back. If the result can only be judged by me, I either keep it by hand or add a gate ...