AI is not just helping people work faster. It is also making average work look polished enough to pass. Good writing, clean design, decent research, and organized communication were skills that we developed over time. They told you someone took the time to think clearly, put in effort, and care about the outcome. Now a lot of that surface-level polish can be generated in seconds. How would you feel if someone sent you a birthday card but they used AI to write the card? That is, if you even could tell it was initially generated by AI. This was a recent debate point on the WVFRM podcast. At my work I review AI generated proposals, pitch decks, and documents from founders. They all look good, some even move through, but it becomes evident later when we speak to the founders that they do not know what they even sent us.
AI can make unfinished thinking look finished. A weak idea can sound confident, a lazy presentation can look professional, a vague strategy can be rewritten into something that feels smart without actually being smart. Everyone can produce something that looks decent, what starts to matter more is can you tell when something is shallow even if it is well polished? This becomes more dangerous when we deal with code. Vibe coders publish apps with zero security layers and putting people’s information on public display.
I do not think AI will kill good work. I think it raises the bar for what good work actually is. The advantage comes from making sure there is actually something real underneath it. The way to stand out right now is to take AI output and make it into something more useful and more honest.
When you use AI to make something that will be delivered to others, review it and put your human touch on it.
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Hey Shayan
This is interesting post and I believe this is actually one of the greatest dangers AI presents us in the current atmosphere. This kind of thing will likely carry into the future world of work outside of college.
With AI being able to generate what seems to be professional-grade content from a simple input, it’s become super difficult for to determine which workers grasp a concept and which ones may have just plugged their thinking into a prompt.
The problem, as in school and in work, there are skills you must have on the fly like judgment and communication skills, problem solving skills, etc. So its difficult for people to determine if your actually working with someone who’s actually knowledgeable.
I also noticed this as a problem in zoom interviews, since people can have AI transcribing on a video call, it makes it difficult to determine if a interviewee actually understands the concept or is just able to read what the response is on the fly. Making in person meetings even that more necessary.