With the rise of AI, people will gradually forget how to really create something from scratch.
There will be generations of engineers and designers who do not know how to use their own imagination to start something. I can already see this when I work with young developers. AI intervention is just a click away. It’s so tempting. For all of us.
Sparring with AI in the beginning makes it much faster to get first results. And it's always easier to refine something that already exists than to start with nothing but a goal. But: AI assistants limit us and our ability to learn and innovate by keeping us within the boundaries we have already created.
So the next time you start something, think first. Then take a shower and think again before sharing your ideas with ChatGPT.
André Simmert