I Realized I Was Depending Too Much on AI
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Generative AI
People are depending too much on AI, and it's changing their cognitive abilities. So, I started researching the long-term impact: Here is my observation: The Observation At first, AI felt like leverage. It helped me move faster. Think faster. Build faster. And honestly, it was exciting. I could generate ideas quickly, solve problems faster, and reduce hours of effort into minutes. But then I started noticing something subtle. Before reaching for my own thinking… I was reaching for AI. For ideas. For structure. For decisions. Sometimes even for first principles.