Writing is thinking, presenting is deciding

One of the things AI is making us confront is that often we don't say what we mean. I guess it's a version of the genie/computers-being-very-literal problem.So, for instance, when we say someone is 'a coder' we often don't mean 'someone who writes code'. We might mean 'someone who does all the complex social, organisational, emotional, logistical things that means the right code is written and the right people know about it and agree that it's a thing that should be done'. And also writes code.I'm simplifying but you know what I mean.Similarly, the other day I asked someone at work to write me a note about a project we were working on. And he did. He came back to me (much too quickly) with a note that had been written by AI. And, obviously, that was my fault. Because really what I meant by 'write me a note' was 'think about this problem, reflect on it for a while and then write down your thoughts, so you can transfer your thoughts to my head and we can think about it…