Lately I've been thinking about how much I rely on AI while building things. It's powerful, but it also made me realize something important about where its limits truly are.
There's this image I made recently, a circle labeled What I can do with my knowledge. That circle represents me, everything I've learned, understood and built so far.
Around it, there's a slightly uneven ring titled What I can do with AI. That outer ring stretches just a bit beyond my circle of knowledge. It's fascinating because AI helps me reach slightly past what I already know. I can build apps faster, debug smarter and explore ideas I might not have thought of yet.
But there's a catch. No matter how advanced AI gets, it can't take me too far beyond that boundary. Outside that ring lies the unknown, the territory where AI stops being useful because it can only operate within the limits of what I already understand.
That's when it hit me.
AI can't replace learning. It only expands the reach of what you already know.
If I stop learning, that inner circle never grows and eventually I'll be stuck creating within the same limits, no matter how powerful the tools become.
But if I keep learning, experimenting and understanding deeply, that circle expands and with it, the range of what I can build with AI grows too.