- One Tool Among Many
In high school, I was ashamed to use my calculator. In my mind, a "real" student had to do all the calculations in their head. One day, my teacher watched me fill an entire page with a single multiplication problem and said, "You're wasting your energy where it's useless." I only understood what he meant much later.
With AI, I had the exact same reaction at first: mistrust, almost guilt. Then I realized I was making the same mistake. The tool wasn't thinking for me. It was simply freeing up my time to think about what really mattered.
What I learned from this: my worth isn't measured by the difficulty of the path, but by what I do with the energy I save.
- What Remains My Own
I remember a text I asked AI to structure. The result was clean, well-organized… and yet, I didn't recognize myself in it. I spent an hour going over everything again: cutting a sentence, adding another, putting back a word that felt like me. In the end, the outline might have come from the machine, but the voice was mine.
That moment taught me something about myself: for a long time, I doubted my judgment. That day, I saw that it truly existed, because I immediately knew what "sounded false."
What I took away from it: to choose is already to create. And every choice I make teaches me a little more about who I am.
- What no machine can do for me
A few years ago, I went through a difficult period: a failure I hadn't seen coming. The months that followed taught me more than any book: patience, humility, the ability to start again. When I write about perseverance today, it's those months I'm talking about.
AI can help me organize those memories, find a clearer way to express them. But it has never been afraid, never doubted, never felt the relief of getting back up. It arranges words. I give it meaning, based on what I've lived through.
What I've learned from this: my experiences, even the most painful ones, are the raw material of everything I have to say that's truly important.
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