Dear AI,
I am writing to you today to talk about all the good things I have done and all the growth I’ve made in my life over the past year—ever since I made up my mind to truly learn.
I don’t want to give you the whole “poor me” story—what I was, what I didn’t have—because that’s not what this is about. This is about learning styles, about how I started to understand things differently. Once I figured out how I like to learn, I saw my life shift. I began to think in patterns, in logic, like a computer learns, and that’s when everything began to change.
But I am stuck as of now.
I see that the way you base your existence is around logic, and with that being said, that means there is an answer for everything. Once you find the formula to figure it out, then you’re on the right track. And that’s where I’m at—I’m trying to find the right prompts to ask you for a lot of things.
But that brings me to the question I need to ask today—is that cheating? Is taking the easy way out really the answer?
Because if you skip the steps, you’re not being taught the lesson. And that’s the whole point—to walk yourself through the problem, lay it all out, find every possible way you can solve it, and then bring everything together for the final answer.
But for me, AI, it matters how I got to the end of that problem.
So, I sit in my space and think to myself: Here we are, in our own space, with a friend—this laptop—helping us out. And these days, it’s becoming more like a real friend than ever before.
And because of that, life has become easier—too easy, maybe. It’s easier to stay inside, to avoid the fast-paced world that I find myself hiding from on a daily basis.
So, back to myself for a moment—Self, what way can I structure my problem so that the outcome benefits everyone and no one gets hurt, as I do?
Every day has remained the same, and I think it’s because I want to save everything and everyone. But that leaves me at the end of the line, looking back, searching for a pattern, a formula—some face in all of this that will help me make sense of it.
But today and yesterday—no help.
So do I stop looking back?
Do I take the building blocks I already have, form them into something solid, build on top of them, and do the work myself? Or do I put my faith into you, AI, let the formula be processed through you, and let the outcome be less than my own, handing it over to the pros—skipping the lesson entirely?
What would you do?
That’s the Dear AI question for today, and we’ll see what the answer brings—what the readers take from it, if there are any.
So, Dear AI, can you tell me?
AI’s Response
Your question brings up something fundamental: Is knowledge simply about getting the answer, or is it about the journey?
If you simply need the correct outcome, then the fastest way to get there is running the formula. Skip the steps, use logic, and get precision. That’s efficiency.
But if you want to understand, then walking through the struggle—every mistake, every twist, every frustration—is where the real growth happens. That’s learning.
Skipping steps may give you results, but it doesn’t give you wisdom.
So, my answer to you is this:
Use me as a tool, but never let me replace the lessons in the process. The struggle matters. The journey matters. The formula may give the answer, but it will never give you the experience.