AI
The Cost, Plainly
A coin per paper, for a summary and a diagram. That's the whole external cost. The reading was folded into a bill I already paid.
AI
Personal Essay
The System I No Longer Hold in My Head
It kept working, so I stopped looking. The day it failed, I found a machine I no longer recognized as mine.
Side Notes
The Rewrite, and What It Couldn't Fix
I fixed the framing error I could see. The trouble is the mistakes I can't see — and fluent output is not evidence either way.
Side Notes
The Summaries Looked Good. Then I Read One Properly.
I was about to call the AI summaries a success. Then I read one properly, and found a mistake I'd only caught because it happened to be in a field I know.