Don’t Throw Out the Keyboard in the AI Revolution
Just last week I had a someone reply to a request for an interview using what he referred to as “AI-assisted articulation.” Harshith Vaddiparthy, a tech executive, read my email asking for his view on the reliabilty of Anthropic’s coding tool. Then he spoke into his computer using OpenClaw, a speech-to-text tool, “to create a full doc with my thoughts.” He reviewed it before sending it to me.
“The key nuance I would emphasize is that OpenClaw is not independently inventing answers on my behalf,” Vaddiparthy told me after I quizzed him about it. “The point of view is mine.”
Is it, though? I get what he’s saying: They are his thoughts, structured into text, then approved. But I think he’s kidding himself, as is anyone else delegating to these tools. An unstructured, unarticulated thought spoken aloud is merely a half-thought; a raw egg cracked into a cold pan. “Writing is thinking,” the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough said in 2002. “To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.”
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