A person describes their personal approach to using AI as a tool for growth and efficiency while maintaining human judgment and creativity.

The author views AI as a tool to serve their goals rather than capture their attention, positioning themselves as an active operator and decision-maker rather than a passive user.

They identify specific use cases: research and learning (with recognition that AI can be wrong), removing tedious work to free time for meaningful activities, and maintaining quality standards against low-effort output.

To avoid treating AI as a crutch, they emphasize keeping focus, exercising judgment (describing AI as 'a really fancy autocomplete tool'), maintaining taste and creativity, and trusting human intuition and pattern-matching developed over a lifetime.