u/Late_Celebration_713

Hello everyone,
I’m curious on how / what you guys do to not make yourself “lazy” with AI? I’m an aircraft mechanic by trade and do lots of woodworking, fabrication, 3d printing, and just general tinkering in my free time. I’ve been trying to learn more about electronics and doing Arduino projects as well as messing around with trying to repair some old stereo systems lately. Long story short, I’ve noticed I’ve been using ai tools more and more over the past year and I feel like I’ve been maybe cutting a lot of corners in learning stuff by just going for the easy answer with ai. I’ve since gone cold turkey to it for about 2 months now, but I know it’s an amazing tool and wanna still get the benifits it offers. I wanna learn as much as I can as often as a can, but I’m busy enough already so I feel like I should take advantage of the time saving convenience it offers without crippling myself. Just curious on how you guys navigate this. Any responses appreciated.

Hello, I am 22 and have played the game all my life. I’ve always been an above average player growing up, and really started to excel at a high school level (small town high school in Midwest, no where big). My academics were something I didn’t take seriously and enlisted in the Air Force and left 2 weeks after my high school graduation. I thought my baseball days were over, but when I got to my first base, they had a team, and I signed up. I was quickly considered the best hitter on the team (this is an amateur league that is just for fun, so batting almost 400 doesn’t mean much). I have now played on 3 different base teams, and wished every day that I gave college a shot. I train every day around baseball, as if I never left the sport. But I have 3 years left on my contract and wanna try and play at the highest level I can. I will be 25 trying to come back into the world. I know this all may seem ridiculous and far fetched, and I ZERO inclination that I will somehow be a superstar and play in the show or some D1 college. I just wanna see what everyone else thinks about a 25 year old trying to walk on to a D3 school or get into a high A or double A team? And if there is any advise or ideas out there.

Thanks

NOTE: I had an offer to play for Western Illinois University out of high school but I had already convinced myself school wasn’t for me. What an idiot lol