{"id":23219,"date":"2026-05-24T07:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/i-avoid-ai-tools-because-thinking-is-supposed-to-be-hard-its-what-makes-us-human-wendy-liu\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:37:14","slug":"i-avoid-ai-tools-because-thinking-is-supposed-to-be-hard-its-what-makes-us-human-wendy-liu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/i-avoid-ai-tools-because-thinking-is-supposed-to-be-hard-its-what-makes-us-human-wendy-liu\/","title":{"rendered":"I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It\u2019s what makes us human | Wendy Liu"},"content":{"rendered":"

As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move<\/p>\n

Long before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way.<\/p>\n

It was the mid-2000s, and I was a child with unmonitored access to the family computer. With the help of a basic text editor program, I learned how to make websites \u2013 first basic, then increasingly complex \u2013 from scratch. The results were never as beautiful or polished as in my imagination, but I could live with that, because I was learning a craft. The painstaking hours of debugging and poring over arcane documentation for projects that I eventually abandoned never felt wasted.<\/p>\n

Wendy Liu is a writer based in San Francisco and the author of Abolish Silicon Valley<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nAs intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move
\nLong before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way.
\nIt was the mid-2000s, and I was a child with unmonitored access to the family computer. With the help of a basic text editor program, I learned how to make websites \u2013 first basic, then increasingly complex \u2013 from scratch. The results were never as beautiful or polished as in my imagination, but I could live with that, because I was learning a craft. The painstaking hours of debugging and poring over arcane documentation for projects that I eventually abandoned never felt wasted.
\nWendy Liu is a writer based in San Francisco and the author of Abolish Silicon Valley Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move Long before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way. It was the mid-2000s, and I was a …<\/p>\n

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