Noam Segal
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than they ever have before, whatever that work is, whether it's PRs, PRDs, research projects, prototypes, but they're not, the output isn't of higher quality.
And perhaps the even more concerning effect, which we heard about, but the deeper cost of all of this is the cost of
using ai on thinking and judgment people essentially told us my brain is rotting my work feels worse and this this is related to phenomenon i've heard about recently like um is it cognitive rot i think is what what i've heard
basically this phenomenon where you sort of see the initial output of an AI model and you sort of just accept it.
You don't apply your judgment to it.
You don't apply your thinking to it.
And you slowly let your mind, your involvement in your work, your agency sort of collapse into this rotting state, so to speak.
They are self-aware, but, you know, among other things, I'm a certified coach, and I would suggest that beyond being self-aware, we need to act on this.
There are several explanations I could give to this phenomenon.
One of them might be that the honeymoon period with AI is over.
You know, we thought it was perfect, and, you know, the best thing that ever happened to us since sliced bread or whatever typical Americans say was
But we've realized it's not quite there yet.
And yes, the models are the worst they're ever going to be.
They're only getting better, but there's still so much they need to get better before we can really say, yeah, like my work is just so much better and I don't need to be as involved with it.
You had Simon Willison on this show talking about how people are worried about skill atrophy.
that they're not learning enough and that we need to be consciously resistant to this and not let ourselves cognitively rot.
And I think this data suggests that we're losing that fight a little bit.
We need to put a little bit more energy into it, into fighting this cognitive rot that we're feeling.
And to make sure that as the bar continues to rise and this technology continues to evolve, that we're meeting that with deliberate practice, deliberate thinking, deliberate judgment.
Yeah, there's so much to say here.
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