Is It Me or Is AI Making Us Useless?

Hey. Hi. Hello.

Yes, I’m back. Again.

I haven’t posted in a while. Not because I didn’t want to (okay maybe a little) but mostly because I’ve been running low on energy, ideas, motivation, and let’s be real, personality.

(If burnout was a personality type, it’s me.)

But weirdly enough, even when I stop writing, I still crave this space of mine.

It’s that tiny corner of the internet where I hope someone like me is reading this, while stuck in corporate hustle, juggling deadlines, and googling “how to multitask?”

So what brought me here today?

Well… scrolling IG for straight 30 minutes, I realize 7 out of 10 reels are literally people complaining about corporate exhaustion, how they quit their jobs, or how they romanticize quitting their jobs.

Algorithm, bestie, why are you reading my soul like that?

Anyway, I took it as a sign.

Sat down to type out my thoughts. With exactly zero plan. Not even a title in mind.
Just vibes, overworked neurons, and chatGPT, who’s definitely more productive than I am right now.

Now, That's Today’s “non-topic” topic:

We're getting too lazy... because of AI.

I said it cz I feel it.

Every time I feel overwhelmed with my daily tasks, AI is like — “I gotcha, babe.”

Emails? Written.
Ideas? Generated.
Presentations? Half-done already.
Replying to manager? All set to go.

And while that sounds cool, here’s the but:
I think I’ve gotten so comfy with my digital BFF doing half the heavy lifting, I’ve stopped exercising my own brain.

Like, the creative muscle? It’s now a noodle, that too a soggy one.

I’ve become so dependent that when ChatGPT was slow one day, I legit considered taking sick leave!!

You see that image above? Anyone can say it's AI by the extra "L" in "Useless", but who really cares!

Who wants to spend 30 minutes on Canva when a 2-line prompt can work (somehow)?

It’s wild. I thought using AI would make me more productive — and yes, it did — but it also made me super lazy.

So what do we do then? Just... stop using AI?

LOL, no. It's my ride-or-die, my unpaid intern. So, not happening.

But maybe, just maybe, we use it with a little more intention.

Like AI should be the co-pilot, not the driver. Sometimes, you gotta push past the comfort.

Because when it takes over completely, we kinda forget how to figure things out on our own. To brainstorm. To write with our own tone.

So today, I forced myself to write. Even without a real idea, in the middle of the week. Just to say I’m still here.

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