AI is embedded in how we work—and that’s a good thing.

But AI’s fluency can lull us into deferring to it rather than directing it.

Using AI well means staying in the driver’s seat, and that takes deliberate practice.

I came to America from Bangladesh at the age of 17, with very little money in my pocket and even less of an idea of what I was walking into. What I did have —and what I've leaned on for every decision I've made ever since—was a capacity I had developed early in life: the ability to work out what I actually thought, and then to act on it even when no one else agreed with me.

There’s a word for that capacity. Judgment. And it’s the thing I'm most worried about losing right now.

The reason I am worried about it is because I use AI every day. I use it to build applications, develop frameworks, design visual assets, and research what’s happening at the edges of the fields I need to understand. I use it to stress-test arguments before I bring them to my team or to a client. I use it to think through how a message will land before I send it. In raw output, I'm more productive today than a team of 10 would have been five years ago. And it isn't just speed; the work is objectively better. Right now, I’m still one of the early adopters. But pretty soon, this will be the reality in every job. Very few people will have a choice about whether or not they use AI, just as few people get to choose whether they use computers or email or the internet today.

So this isn’t an article about whether to use AI. It’s about how to hold onto your judgment while you do.

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