I have a theory about what some of the smarter AI users are actually doing with it.

I've noticed something on Reddit that I can't really unsee anymore.

There are a lot of people posting their own frameworks, models, systems, theories, etc. They often have completely different names and use completely different language — but sometimes they seem to be circling around surprisingly similar questions.

It made me wonder if AI is creating a new kind of intellectual workflow.

Someone has a question they've been thinking about for years but never had the tools to properly work through. They start talking to an AI about it. The conversation helps them explore the idea, find connections, test assumptions, organize it, and eventually turn it into some kind of framework.

Then they take that framework out of the AI conversation and bring it to Reddit.

So AI isn't necessarily giving them the answer.

It may be giving people a way to develop and externalize ideas that previously stayed inside their heads.

I don't know how common this actually is. Maybe it's 1%. Maybe 5%. Maybe I'm completely wrong.

But I've started wondering:

How many of the frameworks and personal theories we're seeing online are actually products of people using AI as a thinking partner?

And if this is happening at scale, what does that mean for how new ideas are going to emerge and spread?

Edit: I haven't expected so much people. Finnaly some interesting people actually wrote, some of them just keep playing their upvote games, but so far, I'm happy that thought resonated at least a bit. Such good sub I haven't seen for quite a time.