I Use AI. I Also Think It's Ruining Online Courses. Here's My Honest Take.

Everyone told me AI would change everything. And honestly? They weren't wrong. But not quite in the way they promised.

I remember the first time I asked AI to help me build something for a course. The response was impressive. Confident, thorough, fancy words, beautifully formatted. And then I looked closer. The ideas were fine. But they could have belonged to anyone. There was no trace of the person who was supposed to be teaching the course. No specific story, no hard-won insight, no voice.

That's when I started paying closer attention to what AI actually does well and what it's not so good at. Especially when we let it do too much.

Let me tell you about the time I spent way too long in Terminal trying to generate subtitles.