r/coursivofficial

Say you message a small bakery about a birthday cake. You get a reply within a few minutes: a price range, what they need from you, and when they can confirm.

Then you find out the owner didn't type it. An AI drafted it from the owner's notes. The owner read it, changed one line and hit send.

Some people would say that's no different from a template or a receptionist. Others would feel the bakery never really talked to them.

Now change one detail: the AI sent the reply on its own, and nobody read it first.

Where's your line? Is it fine as long as a person approved it? Should the business say AI was involved? Or would you rather wait hours for the owner to write it themselves?

Imagine two people applying for the same nontechnical role. One has several AI course certificates and can name every new model. The other has one small work sample: the original messy task, what they asked AI to do, the draft, and the mistakes they caught before anyone used it.

The second person might still be bad at the job. The first person might be excellent. Neither a certificate nor one polished example tells the whole story.

If you were hiring, collaborating on a project, or just asking someone for help, what would make you believe they can actually use AI well? A live task? An explanation of what they rejected? A portfolio? Something else?