{"id":23467,"date":"2026-01-12T16:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23467"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:36:43","slug":"there-will-still-be-smart-people-but-only-those-who-choose-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/12\/there-will-still-be-smart-people-but-only-those-who-choose-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There will still be smart people, but only those who choose to be&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As AI continues to infuse itself more deeply into our world, I feel like I&#8217;ll often think of Paul Graham&#8217;s observation here:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Paul Graham on why you shouldn\u2019t write with AI:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn preindustrial times most people&#8217;s jobs made them strong. Now if you want to be strong, you work out. So there are still strong people, but only those who choose to be. It will be the same with writing. There will&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RWGZeJetUp\">pic.twitter.com\/RWGZeJetUp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kieran Drew (@ItsKieranDrew) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ItsKieranDrew\/status\/2004137621539229745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As AI continues to infuse itself more deeply into our world, I feel like I&#8217;ll often think of Paul Graham&#8217;s observation here: Paul Graham on why you shouldn\u2019t write with AI: \u201cIn preindustrial times most people&#8217;s jobs made them strong. Now if you want to be strong, you work out. So there are still strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23469,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23467\/revisions\/23469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}