Where does my craft end and the AI's work begin?
You write with the tool now. It drafts, you edit, and somewhere in that back-and-forth you lost the seam. You cannot say which sentence is yours and which the machine made. This is not proof your craft has died. It is proof you stopped marking your own decisions. The tool does not decide anything. It only produces. Every choice — what to ask it, what to keep, what to cut, what to say instead — is still yours. You have simply stopped tracking which choice was which. The line between your craft and its output was never going to appear by itself. You must draw it, on purpose, each time you sit down to work. That is the whole task now.
You have not lost your craft. You have lost track of it. Draw the line yourself: decide what you want before the tool answers, judge what it gives you after, then revise by hand. The line is not found somewhere — it is drawn, by you, on purpose, every time you work.
What changes unlock by starting
- You can point to any piece of work and say exactly which parts you decided and which the tool produced.
- You stop feeling like a fraud when you use the tool, because your own hand is visible in the result.
- You build the habit of deciding first, generating second, judging third.
- Your work improves, because your judgment is being used, not bypassed.