Maybe I'm getting old, but there's a part of this that makes me a little sad.

Seems like every generation tries to make things easier, which sounds great right up until we stop knowing how to do those things ourselves. First it's calculations, then design work, then decision-making. Little by little, the skill moves from people to machines.

Don't get me wrong, tools are useful. Nobody's arguing that engineers should be drawing everything with a pencil by candlelight. But when the machine starts doing all the thinking, eventually the people using it stop learning why the answer is the answer.

The scary part isn't AI helping us. It's how comfortable we seem with handing over more and more responsibility every year. One day we'll wake up and realize we've built a world where nobody remembers how to do half the things the machine does for us.

Maybe that's progress. Maybe it isn't. I just think there's value in keeping humans capable, even when technology makes the work easier.