You've probably felt it when the AI gives an answer and you think: Should I check this? Do I even know how? That hesitation? Your expertise sending up a flare. Every time you use AI, you choose about your own capability. Not consciously. But the choice is there.

You're asking the wrong question. "What can AI handle?" leads to a binary: everything or nothing. Both paths miss the zone. The missing middle: hybrid work that didn't exist until capability asymmetry created it. AI is fast but context-blind. Humans are slow but judgment-rich.

You need experience to supervise AI. But AI eliminates the entry-level roles where people gain experience. In 5 years, who becomes senior? We automate the grunt work first. The boring stuff. Data entry. Basic analysis. Junior copywriting. First drafts. Research tasks. Makes sense. That's what AI does best.

Every time you use ChatGPT, one decision determines whether you get smarter or dumber: who provides context first. We say we want AI to make us smarter. What we want is AI to do our thinking. We type questions before we think them through. We hit generate before we frame