Ask an AI, and a website or a game appears in seconds: “Done!” More people get to enjoy making things, and that is genuinely good.
But when the output arrives first, the things that should build up inside you while making — the ability to notice that something feels off, an eye for good and bad, your own inner patterns — never build up. From the outside nothing looks wrong, so you don’t notice either.
It is the same as industrial hollowing-out. You still get the products, but the ability to make them disappears.
The problem is not automation itself,
but the hollowing-out that comes from automating thought.