AI can quietly make you worse at the work you care about. Learn to use it for leverage without letting your own judgment and skill atrophy.
Lean on AI for everything and you slowly forget how to do the work yourself.
Every task you hand to a model is a rep you don't take. Do that enough and the skill quietly fades: you can still ship output, but you've lost the judgment to tell when it's wrong. Most advice about AI ignores this trade-off entirely and pushes you to automate more.
This course draws the line between healthy leverage and self-sabotage. You run an atrophy test on your own habits, learn to outsource volume while protecting the reps that actually build skill, and treat the model as a sparring partner that pushes back instead of a ghostwriter that thinks for you. A weekly real rep keeps the muscle you depend on from going slack.
Knowledge workers: who write, code, or analyze daily and feel their edge dulling the more they delegate to AI.
Founders and operators: who want AI's speed without losing the hands-on judgment their decisions rest on.
Students and early-career professionals: who want to build real competence first and use AI to extend it, not replace it.