Are You Trying to Automate Everything with AI? Here’s Why You Should Stop.

Author(s): Kris Ograbek

Originally published on Towards AI.

When Smart Work & AI Automation Turn Against You.
A person controlled by quick success and smart work. Image by the author with the help of DALL-e 3 & Canva.

People are rushing to automate everything with AI.

“Work smart, not hard!” they say.

My LinkedIn feed is full of hooks like:“Are you still working hard?”“Want to know how to work smart?”“Look how I create a post in 1 minute!”

People pay attention to such posts because they look for:↳ hacks↳ secrets↳ shortcuts↳ cheat codes

They want tricks to:↳ avoid the hard work↳ skip the necessary learning↳ achieve big goals quick and easy

People believe AI can magically enable that.

So they start automating tasks they barely understand. They believe they found their shortcuts, their cheat codes. They finally know how to work smart!

But here’s the problem…

You can’t automate something you haven’t done yourself.

Why?

Because it leads to terrible results:

Emails clearly written by ChatGPT.Low-quality content created by LLMs.Comments clearly generated by AI tools.

Automating tasks without deep understanding doesn’t make people look smart. It makes them look stupid.

Look, I’m an AI Engineer. Building AI tools and automation pays my bills.

I’m not here to tell you “Stop using AI!” or “AI is evil!”

Instead, I want to explain:

What NOT to automate.How to use AI strategically.Why hard work and learning will… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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