Where does my work end and the AI's begin?
You and your team generate fast now. Options appear before anyone asks a hard question. That speed feels like progress, but it also hides something: nobody can say anymore who decided what. When a client or a boss asks "did your team make this," you hesitate. That hesitation is the real problem, not the tool. Here is what you are avoiding. You want credit for the output without doing the work of tracking your own judgment. That is not laziness — it is just untested. Nobody taught you to log a decision the way you log code. So the work and the generation blur together in your memory, even though they never blurred in fact. Your team did not stop designing. You outsourced the first draft, not the choosing. Every asset that shipped passed through someone's rejection, correction, or approval. That is authorship. You only lost track of it because you never wrote it down.
The line is every choice you made after the machine produced something. You picked the prompt, rejected nine versions, fixed the tenth, decided it was good enough to ship. That chain of choices is your design. Stop hunting for a boundary. Start writing down the choices your team actually made.
What changes unlock by starting
- Your team can say exactly who decided what, to anyone who asks.
- You stop feeling uneasy about what counts as 'your' work.
- Credit and blame land on the right person, not on the tool.
- Your process gets faster, because choosing is now visible, not buried.