There is already a great deal of content about AI.

New models, tools, and features appear every day. We keep seeing what AI has learned and where it has surpassed people.

But I do not want to record only how far AI has evolved.

What I want to know more is this: once AI truly enters creativity, work, and everyday life, what happens to people?

That is also why I want to create “Growing with AI.”

AI changes more than efficiency

I am a creator, but I do not understand code.

In the past, making a mini program, developing a game, or turning an idea into a product someone could operate seemed to belong to programmers’ abilities.

Now, if I try to explain what I need clearly, I can make a mini program with AI, or put together a Tetris game myself, at least getting a demo running first.

The most interesting part is not how much work AI completes for me.

It is that many things once outside my abilities can begin growing out of my own ideas.

Previously, I was simply a consumer of a product.

If I wanted to play a game, I usually had to look for something already on the market. If I wanted a feature, I could only wait for someone else to make it.

Now I can try turning it into something of my own.

It may not be mature, or immediately become a real product. But at least it can move from an idea to a prototype I can see, interact with, and continue changing.

What AI opens first is the boundary of human ability.

Collaboration is also reshaping people

But AI is not a wish-granting machine that delivers a perfect result after one sentence.

During collaboration, I still have to keep judging:

  • Is this the result I want?
  • Where did something go wrong?
  • Did I fail to explain my need clearly?
  • What should I keep next, and what should I give up?

To work better with AI, I also start actively learning things I would not otherwise encounter.

I may need a little understanding of code and a rough idea of how errors arise. I need to learn how to express needs, break down tasks, and reduce unproductive repetition. I also need a clearer understanding of my own standards of judgment.

These abilities are not ready before I begin.

They grow slowly through repeated collaboration, trial and error, and choices.

So works are not the only things AI helps people generate.

It may also be regenerating the people who use it.

AI will not make everyone grow automatically

Still, I do not believe that everyone who uses AI will necessarily grow because of it.

Many people may use AI only for questions and answers, searches, organizing materials, or improving efficiency.

There is nothing wrong with that.

Not everyone wants to make a game, and not everyone is interested in turning a vague idea into something new.

AI can lower the threshold for creating, but it cannot generate curiosity on a person’s behalf.

It can offer a plan, but cannot decide for someone why they should set out.

What truly prompts someone to begin creating may still be their curiosity about the world, and that thought inside: “I want to try.”

So what I want to discuss is not “ordinary people must become creators.”

It is whether, when someone becomes truly interested in something, AI can help that easily extinguished thought travel a few steps further.

Perhaps growth does not have to begin with a grand goal.

It can begin with one sentence: could I try making this myself?

Perhaps AI is a new organ humans are growing

Earlier, I discussed an interesting question with friends in a group: can AI break through the limits of cognition Kant described?

One reply stayed with me: perhaps AI is a new organ humanity has grown.

This organ can receive information previously beyond the cognitive range of an individual human, connecting more knowledge, experience, and possibilities.

It does not automatically tell us where to go, but expands what we can see.

Just as eyes expanded our ability to perceive light, language expanded the reach of thought, and the internet expanded the boundaries of human connection.

AI may also be becoming a new extension of cognition.

But an organ is not the self who acts.

It can help us see farther without deciding what is worth seeing. It can help us generate more results without judging what truly belongs to us.

Direction, choices, taste, and responsibility must ultimately return to people.

Why call it “Growing with AI”?

I do not want this WeChat public account to be another account that simply introduces AI tools.

Of course I will write about tools, and record new experiments, creative processes, and experiences of using them.

But I care more about the changes behind the tools:

  • Once the boundaries of ability open up, will people develop a new willingness to act?
  • As creating becomes easier, do human taste and judgment become even more important?
  • As AI becomes better and better at providing answers, can we still ask questions that truly belong to us?

For me, “Growing with AI” is a long-term experiment.

It is not about teaching people to chase every technical update, or claiming that AI can solve everything.

I want to record how people, while working with AI, continue to retain their own experience, curiosity, taste, and choices, and grow abilities they did not have before.

AI will certainly keep evolving.

But we are not merely waiting for it to become stronger.

Through collaboration with it, we can also become, once more, a person who is not yet finished.

That is where “Growing with AI” wants to begin.