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Critical thinking in a sea of generated content. Tech, human & AI.

The First Draft cover: three overlapping circles (tech, human and AI) meeting at a bright point, with the title 'Learning to Steer, Not to Race' underlined by hand like a proofreading mark.
Marco Mariotti 6 min read

Learning to Steer, Not to Race

A pull request full of code that works but nobody understood, where a simple ref would have done. AI hands you speed, but speed without direction drags you around: growing isn't producing more code, it's getting to the core of problems.

#ai#generated-code#professional-growth#mentoring
The First Draft cover: three overlapping circles (tech, human and AI) meeting at a bright point, with the title 'In the AI Era, We Read More Than We Write' underlined by hand like a proofreading mark.
Marco Mariotti 7 min read

In the AI Era, We Read More Than We Write

A two-line story lands in review as fifty changed files. AI made writing almost free, so the real craft now is reading and judging: fifteen minutes of work, four hours of review.

#ai#code-review#generated-code#software-engineering
The First Draft cover: three overlapping circles (tech, human and AI) meeting at a bright point, with the title 'In Praise of the Rough Idea' underlined by hand like a proofreading mark.
Marco Mariotti 3 min read

In Praise of the Rough Idea

The First Draft is a reaction to mass-produced content: a space where raw ideas get written, discussed and refined, across tech, human and AI.

#manifesto#ai#writing#critical-thinking