# On Working with Wizards - by Ethan Mollick

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> And that suggests another risk we don't talk about enough: every time we hand work to a wizard, we lose a chance to develop our own expertise, to build the very judgment we need to evaluate the wizard's work.
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> But I come back to the inescapable point that the results are good, at least in these cases. They are what I would expect from a graduate student working for a couple hours (or more, in the case of the re-analysis of my paper), except I got them in minutes.
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> This is the issue with wizards: We're getting something magical, but we're also becoming the audience rather than the magician, or even the magician's assistant.