AddyOsmani.com - Cognitive Surrender
Cognitive offloading is delegating to the AI and still owning the answer. Cognitive surrender is when the AI's output quietly becomes your output and there i...
Cognitive offloading is delegating to the AI and still owning the answer. Cognitive surrender is when the AI’s output quietly becomes your output and there is nothing you feel is left to check. For software engineers the line between the two moves under your feet most days, and most of us are crossing it without noticing. There’s a term I heard yesterday that I wanted to discuss: cognitive surrender . It comes from a recent paper out of the Wharton School at UPenn - Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave’s “Thinking - Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cogniti
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