When I Outsourced My Brain (and It Sent Me a Meeting Invite)
Published on 17 November 2025 | Category: Technology
Few weeks ago, I asked AI to write a thank you note for a friend's birthday, because apparently, even gratitude needs automation now.
That's when it hit me, I've officially become the unpaid intern of my own AI tools.
I used to think for a living. Now I just prompt. I used to write articles. Now I just edit what AI wrote and call it "collaboration."
Other day, I opened a new AI chat and dictated something deep like, "Write a thought provoking paragraph about creativity and human intellect." And boom, it gives me a 400 word essay that sounds like an over-caffeinated philosopher who just discovered Grammarly.
But here's the problem: The more it writes, the more I forget how to. It's like having a gym membership but only sending my trainer to work out.
At first, it was my curiosity.
"AI will just help me summarize emails."
Now it's like,
"AI, can you summarize my purpose in life and create a PowerPoint?"
I've realized something very uneasy (and I guess so have most people): the less I think, the more I scroll. The less I create, the more I copy. And the more I rely on AI, the more my brain quietly updates its LinkedIn headline to 'Open to opportunities (preferably offline)'.
So here's what I'm doing now:
I'm forcing myself to write one paragraph a day without using AI. It's chaotic. It's messy. But atleast it's mine.
I'm trying to remember phone numbers. (Haven't succeeded, but I did memorize the OTP.)
And I'm learning to live with typos, because at least I made them.
I'm not anti-AI.
It's incredible. It saves time, polishes ideas, and occasionally makes me sound smarter than I
am. But I don't want to wake up one day and realize that the only original thought I have left
is "AI, can you make this sound more human?"
So yes, use AI. But don't let it use you.
Let it be your assistant, not your author.
Let it edit your words, not erase your mind.
And most importantly, write something today that's messy, raw, and wrong in all the right ways.
Because that's the one thing AI still can't do, be gloriously, unapologetically human.