Friction is needed for personal development. Lured by the ease of AI we forego the opportunity to experience both. Source: Walther. Gemini. 2025

The empty page once possessed terrifying power. It was a vast, white silence demanding to be filled solely by the cognitive architecture of the individual. To write, to code, to design, was to confront the friction of one’s own limitations and, through effort, transcend them.

Today, friction is vanishing

The rise of generative AI, models capable of producing text, images, and code with eerie fluency, has brought about a shift in the psychological landscape. We are promised an era of endless productivity , a democratization of creativity in which the entry barrier for complex tasks is lowered to a mere verbal prompt.

Yet nothing is truly

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