There is a linear relationship between how much research work you personally do and how well you understand the resulting material, so offloading research to AI makes the final product worse even though it saves time.

Pierce says that despite the temptation to have AI do early research for his history podcast, doing so makes the show worse because he ends up knowing the material less. ✦ AI generated

David Pierce · Platformer · 2026-07-14 · original ↗

I really do believe there is a linear relationship between how much of the work I'm doing and how well I know the thing at the end. Reasonable people could disagree on that, but I firmly believe it.

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