Igor Fil

“ChatGPT writes my legal documents for me,” said my lawyer friend. I told him: take the AI away and you can’t do it yourself. Two years later I caught myself telling my coding agent “go fix it” — no idea what was wrong, no idea what the fix was. I became my lawyer friend. Knowledge comes in three tiers, and AI is quietly rewriting who gets to reach the third one.

I asked my AI agent to prep me for a customer meeting. In the meeting, I could barely remember which company I was talking to. I did not forget the details — I never knew them in the first place. An AI summary is rented knowledge. Writing it yourself is owning it. Renting is fine — until you rent something load-bearing.

Every programmer will tell you their code is better than average. Me included. That’s why every programmer now says AI code is bad. But “good code” was never aesthetics — it was ergonomics for the bottleneck: human cognition. The bottleneck moved.