Deric, MindBlog, and exiting the miasma of AI integration

A relentless steady infusion of AI into our daily lives - sometimes optional, often not - is being carried out to 'improve' our daily digital chores of emailing, texting, web browsing, and shopping. My screens are becoming cluttered with icons of AI-gnats that I would like to brush away with a digital fly swatter. I already have more options on my plate than I have any interest in pursuing, and would like to be left alone to continue doing what has been working well for me. I enjoy a bit of friction and effort, seamless is boring. 

I am more concerned about using or relying on AI for more advanced thinking and writing tasks, as in my MindBlog posts that have been making increasing use it over the past several years.

I've learned to use Claude code to dink with my website's code, and learned to use both ChatGPT and Claude Cowork to construct agents that find, analyze, summarize, and write MindBlog posts on new ideas in MindBlog's areas of interest -  much faster and better than I can. It would be easy increase the weekly number of MindBlog posts from ~3 to as many as I would like, probably decreasing the probability that engagement clicks logged by Blogger's stats are from humans rather than robots. This exercise of finding interesting and important articles illustrates what for me is AI's most important function, being a engine for discovery and learning, like an amazing camera that can find and focus on things you didn't realize were there.  

My problem with increasing the amount of AI assisted content in MindBlog is that what has been appearing no longer feels as much like my own (a prime example is the previous MindBlog post on nondual awareness as a  civic technology). I can bullshit about how I am using AI as a tool, as above, or in curating the best from a number of LLMs given the same prompt, but I don't feel the same ownership or agency. It's not me, I'm not really using my brain as much.  I fear my 84 year old brain will become more lazy if there is less friction and struggle in my trying to get ideas to cohere, as the 'use it or loose it' rule comes into play. I'm thinking I will pass on some of what I think are some of the most interesting articles my AI agents find, but only with their abstracts and any commentary I decide to write.