I judged my mum for using AI, until I caught myself doing worse
After watching my mum hit chatbots (Meta AI inside WhatsApp) for the most basic calculations and tasks, my hot take is that we're rapidly entering the default sedentary era of intellectual fitness. And seeing it written out, I realize she's a convenient patsy. It's not just my mum's overreliance on AI that sparked this thought; it's mine, and it's certainly not limited to coding tools, like my denial would have me believe.
- ▪After watching my mum hit chatbots (Meta AI inside WhatsApp) for the most basic calculations and tasks, my hot take is that we're rapidly entering the default sedentary era of intellectual fitness.
- ▪And seeing it written out, I realize she's a convenient patsy.
- ▪It's not just my mum's overreliance on AI that sparked this thought; it's mine, and it's certainly not limited to coding tools, like my denial would have me believe.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (AI / LLM) |
| Canonical URL | https://www.0xsid.com/blog/intellectual-fitness |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:47:26 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T13:55:27.643Z |
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After watching my mum hit chatbots (Meta AI inside WhatsApp) for the most basic calculations and tasks, my hot take is that we're rapidly entering the default sedentary era of intellectual fitness. And seeing it written out, I realize she's a convenient patsy. It's not just my mum's overreliance on AI that sparked this thought; it's mine, and it's certainly not limited to coding tools, like my denial would have me believe. Last week, I needed to charge my electric car, which requires a short sequence of small arithmetic calculations: current state of charge deducted from my target, usually 80%, which then needs to be converted into an absolute kWh number by calculating it as a percentage of my total battery size, and finally multiplied by the per kWh rate to give me the final cost to load…
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