AI is a force multiplier. Feed it a good draft and you get a slightly better one. Feed it a bad draft and you get a polished bad draft — and you've outsourced the thinking that would have sharpened your judgment next time. That's the quiet cost.
Your voice is the value
Newsletters, toasts, sympathy notes, a review of someone you know well
You'd learn by struggling
Your first SQL query, financial model, or contract — that's how skill forms
It must be legally defensible
Contracts, filings, anything that could end up in court
It needs human emotional intelligence
Firing, apologies, hard feedback, asking for a raise
You can't judge the output
Advice or code in a domain you don't know well enough to catch errors
It takes 30 seconds to just do
"thanks!", a meeting confirmation, a 20-word Slack reply
Everything else? Lean on AI hard. Now let's pressure-test your judgment.