Key points

Growth requires struggle, and AI’s ease removes the friction that builds thought.

True learning lives in failure, not fluency.

Strength is born from repair, not perfection.

There’s an old Latin phrase that has stayed with me lately: Succisa virescit . The translation roughly means, “When cut down, we grow back stronger.” Originally the sixth-century motto of the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino, it reflects a simple but profound truth about the human condition—growth often begins in the aftermath of loss. What was once a call to spiritual and physical resilience has become, for me, a powerful metaphor for cognition itself, particularly in an age when artificial intelligence and large language models promise the curious dynamic of fluency without failure.

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