Bruce Schneier's Frame for When to Delegate to AI: 'The Writing Assignments I Give My Students Are Gym Tasks, Not Work Tasks'
Schneier on Security (via Simon Willison)·medium signal
Simon Willison surfaced a quotation on 2026-07-30 from Schneier's post 'Should You Use AI for a Task? Here's a Simple Way to Decide' (2026-07). The distinction is between tasks whose value is the artifact and tasks whose value is the capability the effort builds — assign the first to AI freely, and delegating the second means 'those skills will atrophy.' It is a cleaner decision rule than the usual capability-based arguments, and it applies directly to engineers deciding which parts of their own work to hand to a coding agent.