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Keep the Robots Out of the Gym | Daniel Miessler

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AI is getting so good now (at the end of 2025) that I now have a new, primary recommendation going into 2026: Think very carefully about where you get help from AI. I use a Job vs. Gym analogy. In the first case we just want the output, and in the second the whole point is to do the work ourselves. Going forward, and especially as AI improves, it's critical that we don't confuse these two things. Step 1 is figuring out which are which for you. For me, any sort of: ...are all Gym tasks. These are core to my how I see myself, and I want to not only maintain my skills with doing these things, but I want to get better at them over time. That beign true, because my work is largely cognitive, and the whole point of AI is to magnify my ability to do that work, I inevitably will use AI to do many of these Gym tasks in a given day/week/year. I've started building a system into my customized ai stack that functions not just as a worker, but also as a tutor. Currently this takes the form of a wee

Keep the Robots Out of the Gym | Daniel Miessler Keep the Robots Out of the Gym Be careful where you get help from AI November 24, 2025 #ai #productivity #future #must  Gridfire-channeling… AI is getting so good now (at the end of 2025) that I now have a new, primary recommendation going into 2026: Think very carefully about where you get help from AI. I think of it as Job vs. Gym . If we're working a manual labor job, it's fine to have AI lift heavy things for us because the actual goal is to move the thing, not to lift it. This is the exact opposite of going to the gym, where the goal is to

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