The lazy person seems more effective than the person who is not lazy. A lazy person makes only necessary things. And that thing limits the errors. But the same thing denies the person advance their skills. The need for effective work without errors limits a person's ability to grow their skills in working life.
AI is same time a very impressive, revolutionary, and dangerous tool. The AI is like the Schrödinger's cat. It might not be dangerous itself, but using it wrong people can create dangerous things. And one of the most dangerous things. What people can create is to leave all work to AI. If people just trust AI and they will not want to check things that the AI does, sooner or later the result is catastrophic. When we think of AI simply as an advanced technical tool, we face another thing. We can compare the AI with things like cars.
Cars are also a big technical advance. They are a cornerstone of our society. But cars can cause damage to health. And this time, I don't mean people who don't care about traffic laws or rules. Lazy people face the danger that sitting between the steering wheel and chair causes.
When people move only using cars they face a lack of exercise. Same time when lazy people make something with AI they lose their ability to estimate text. They lose their reading skills, but the counterargument is that lazy people will do that thing anyway. In the same way, we can say that car destroys our health. If we just drive the car while we go out, we can make a long journey.
But that doesn't burn very many calories. Nobody says that: we need also some other exercise than just turning the steering wheel and pushing the gas pedal. And nobody doesn't ever excuse the need for cars. But people are concerned about AI.
If we think that lazy people use AI, we must understand that effectiveness is a key element in modern working life. We might think, that diligent people don't use AI. But the thing is that AI makes many things faster, and more accurate. And AI makes fewer mistakes than humans. This means the person who wants to be diligent makes unnecessary work. If a programmer must fix only one path. That means that a person must do less work than when a programmer must fix the entire code.
That saves work and time in the company. And the time is money. This is why lazy people are effective. They don't do unnecessary work. The problem in that model is that this thing denies the lazy person's advance. If a person makes only necessary things. That means this person cannot improve their knowledge and skills.
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