🧠 The Golden Age of Delegation
“Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?” — The Guardian asked this recently.
And it stuck with me.
Because I’ve been thinking about something else —
how we decide what to delegate to AI,
and what to protect as human craft.
What I Happily Delegate
✅ The repetitive, mechanical work:
- Summarizing long documents
- Cleaning messy data
- Transcribing or formatting notes
- Generating first drafts or brainstorming ideas
These tasks free up space — mental and emotional — to focus on the meaningful parts.
What I Don’t
⚠️ The things that make thinking human:
- Deep reasoning and judgment
- Crafting narratives that require empathy and tone
- The slow, messy process that transforms learning into understanding
AI isn’t making us stupid.
It’s just making it easier to skip the hard parts of thinking.
That’s on us to manage.
The Real 2025 Skill
Maybe the skill that matters most now isn’t prompt engineering —
it’s delegation judgment.
Knowing when to let AI help,
and when to stay in the discomfort of doing it ourselves.
The Parenting Mirror
👨👧🤖 As a parent, that question feels even bigger:
How will the next generation learn — and think — in an AI world?
It’s no longer if or when.
It’s how they’ll build a mind in a world where thinking itself can be outsourced.
My 10-year-old already rolls her eyes when I say:
“Let me check with GPT.”
She’ll sigh,
“Dad, maybe just use your brain for once.” 😅
Maybe she’s right.
Maybe wisdom in the AI age starts with knowing when not to ask it.
Where do you draw your line?
🔗 Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? — The Guardian