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AI tools let people skip the slow part of learning a craft, so some ship work they can't judge
Career & Craft
- Designers say craft was learned through the friction that the tooling now removes.
- They say the ability to make things now runs ahead of the ability to tell whether the result is good.
- One writer retypes generated code by hand, and one studio rebuilt its process and got fuller work, not faster work.
- These are essays and talks by unrelated authors about their own practice, with no shared event.
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First seen 29 Aug 2025
If you are a PM
BeforeNow
Review asks if it is finishedReview asks how they know it is good
AI makes the plan fasterCheck if it got faster or just fuller
A work sample shows skillAsk what a polished sample really proves
BeforeNow
You trust what the tool made
Who said it
Josh Comeaubsky.app · 2 November 2026
…The thing that has felt clear to me for a while now is that AI *can* be tremendously useful for learning, but most people will take the path of least resistance and will find themselves deprived of any meaningful benefits.Emil Kowalski, Linearx.com · 13 October 2026
…The work you will do will feel frictionless, it will feel amazing on the surface, but once you go a bit deeper, it’ll feel extremely shallow. It won’t reflect the struggles you went through, your decisions, and ideas. …
