01/10/2026
I was waiting for my dental appointment when I saw a magazine sitting nearby.
And for some reason, ang nostalgic pala ng feeling na may hawak kang actual magazine.
Napaisip tuloy ako sa high school days ko, when I was the editor-in-chief of our student paper.
Back then, kailangan talaga marunong kang magbasa.
Kasi paano ka magsusulat nang maayos kung hindi ka mahilig magbasa?
I mean, lailangan mong i-enrich yung vocabulary mo. Kailangan marunong kang mag-express ng thoughts mo. And when we edited articles, wala namang ChatGPT even Grammarly na pwede mong pagtanungan kung paano gawing mas maganda yung sentence. There was no tool that could instantly give us five better ways to say something.
Walang AI.
Walang ibang tools.
We had our adviser, our dictionaries, our classmates, and whatever resourcefulness we could come up with.
And looking back, I think there was something valuable about growing up that way.
Hindi dahil mas magaling kami.
Hindi rin dahil mas okay ang buhay noon.
But because having fewer tools forced us to become resourceful in a different way.
And now, ang interesting na we get to live in both worlds.
We know what it’s like to figure things out without technology.
And we also get to experience what it’s like to have AI help us do things faster, better, and sometimes in ways we couldn’t have imagined before.
That’s why I don’t think AI is the enemy of intelligence.
AI is a tool.
And like any tool, the value isn’t just in the tool itself.
It’s in knowing how to leverage it.
The more you know how to think, question, write, decide, and create on your own, the more powerful AI becomes in your hands.
Maybe that’s one thing I appreciate about being a millennial.
We learned how to survive one world…
and now we’re learning how to thrive in another.
And honestly?
I’m kind of proud that I get to experience both.
