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title: "AI as Tool, Not Creator: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Front-Load the Thinking"
date: 2026-01-13T12:00:00-05:00
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description: The craft is in the decisions. The tool just handles the transcription.
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_The craft is in the decisions. The tool just handles the transcription._
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So that's where I've landed. AI as tool, not creator. Front-load the thinking, hand off the transcription. Stay alert to where the ethical lines are, even when they're blurry.
If I learn that even careful, front-loaded use still displaces working creators in ways I haven't seen, I'll have to reconsider. I'm not attached to being right about this. I'm attached to doing less harm than I would by ignoring the question entirely.
New tools have always created disruption, this I know. But if the balance shifts in ways I haven't anticipated, if my careful approach turns out to violate ethical lines I thought I was respecting, I'll have to reconsider. I'm not attached to being right about this. I'm attached to doing less harm than I would by ignoring the question entirely.
Other people will draw the lines differently, and I'm not here to tell them they're wrong. The technology is genuinely new, the implications are genuinely uncertain, and reasonable people can look at the same situation and come to different conclusions.