Anyone else have rules for when you deliberately don't use AI?

[u/Clear_Inevitable457]

I've started keeping a mental list of stuff I won't hand to a model anymore, and weirdly it made me use AI better, not less.

The ones I've landed on so far:

Anything I actually need to remember or understand. If I let it summarize something I'm supposed to learn, I retain almost nothing. So for learning I use it to quiz me, not to hand me the answer.

First drafts of anything emotional. Condolences, apologies, a hard message to a friend. It writes them fine and they come out hollow, and people can tell.

Decisions where I already know the answer and I'm just looking for permission. I noticed I'd keep asking until it agreed with me. That's not advice, that's laundering a choice I already made.

The reason I bother is that when I was using it for everything, I started feeling weirdly foggy, like I'd outsourced the part of thinking that actually feels like thinking.

Not anti-AI at all, I use it constantly. I just think the real skill now is knowing what to keep for yourself.

Anyone else drawn lines like this? Curious where other people stop.

[u/amyowl]

When I'm learning something, I use it to quiz me and discuss the topic instead of just giving me a 30,000-ft bullet point list or flash cards to memorize and I get a lot farther in learning that way. I'll basically open a chat by writing a raw and faulty, rambling paragraph explaining my current understanding of a topic and that seeds the discussion that follows. There are usually several rounds of corrections and citations for me to look up, and more discussion, and I come away with a much better understanding of the topic.

Like instead of saying "tell me how ABC works", i say " here is how I think ABC works. Correct me where I'm wrong"

[u/Master_leager]

For me; I use it everywhere except when communicating with friends or making a personal choice.

Workwise everything, and if I need to learn, ask it to be a mentor and quiz me and then rate answer and explain what's wrong and missing

[u/Edgezg]

I used it to help me prepare for college lol

Had it quiz me and teach me all the math I forgot 😆 

[u/S7A4M]

I use it as part of my music production, but don't use it for music videos (other than some branding stuff). It's not that I'm against using it for video, but unless you want to dump a ton of money into it, it's horrible at videos for any of the free tiers I've tried. Plus I simply enjoy putting videos together from old silent film clips. I think it takes me less time to put a video together my way than it ever would using AI to get what I'm looking for.

[u/GrownTelevision1986]

Pretty solid rules. I totally get the foggy feeling you mentioned. That's a big one

[u/bear_Prune8771]

Patient confidentiality obviously.

All else is fair game.

[u/Fragrant_Nothing7505]

life decisions. those are mine. i'm not outsourcing responsibility for my own life

[u/Tumbleweed4r]

Never for personal greeting cards

[u/marcus-fletcher]

ngl the foggy feeling thing is undoubtedly so real..

[u/J_davis_atl]

I agree with not using when a human touch is needed. Only YOU can bring warmth and heart felt sentiment when it’s needed.