Beware enfeeblement

Bret Stephens wrote a New York Times plea this month titled “I’m Begging You: Never Write With AI,” and it clearly got under Matt’s skin — in the productive way. Stephens’ case isn’t about ethics (a citation handles that); it’s that writing with AI is mentally weakening, because writing is how we actually develop and test our ideas, and outsourcing it enfeebles us. Matt finds most of it compelling…