What I learned from using AI for a month straight

A month ago, I decided to integrate AI tools into every part of my creative workflow. Not as a novelty. As a genuine experiment to see what changes when you commit fully.

The short answer: some things changed dramatically. Others did not change at all. And the most interesting findings were in the grey area between the two.

What actually changed

First drafts got faster. Not better, necessarily, but faster. The blank page problem almost disappeared. Having a starting point, even a mediocre one, shifted my energy from creation to curation. That felt significant.

What stayed the same

Taste. Judgment. The ability to know when something is done. These did not change. If anything, they became more important. When output is cheap, the ability to evaluate output becomes the real skill.

The questions I am still sitting with

Is faster always better? What do we lose when we skip the slow, messy part of creation? I do not have answers yet. But I think asking the questions matters more than pretending to have them figured out.