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The nice thing about AI being able to do it is that it gives you the freedom to simply enjoy things with far reduced performance pressure.

I'm not a professional chef, I don't cook as well as one, but it's still satisfying to prepare a meal.

I'm not as good at Korean as a native speaker and not as effective at acquiring it as many other students, but it's still nice to progress at my own pace.

Just write if you want to.

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This is my attitude. Doing these kinds of things for your own satisfaction is something that gets majorly overlooked. Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut talking about writing a poem every day just for the heck of it.

Even if you're not actively trying to progress, writing/coding/working out/cooking/whatever else can be done for its own sake and still be rewarding, and sometimes it's good to resist the urge to compete with others or even monetize hobbies.

It's true freedom! The ability to live and fill life as we choose. Something we don't value enough.

As a person who loves playing chess but will never be as good as an IM (let alone GMs or Magnus or engines), I've had to internalize this. It's a good feeling.

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