automation is great until you realize you stopped doing the thing often enough to stay decent at it. i’m mostly thinking about the boring stuff here — shortcuts, templates, autofill, copilots — where the gain is obvious but the muscle memory fades in the background.
has anyone found a good line between making the easy path easy and not outsourcing the skill entirely?
I’ve had the best luck drawing the line at “automate the setup, keep the judgment manual. ” Like, I’m happy to let templates/autofill get me to a blank form that’s already 80% there, but I still force myself to write the last 20% where the actual thinking lives (wording, structure, what to leave out). Otherwise it’s like using GPS for every single drive — you get there, but you stop building the map in your head.
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