AI didn’t make our work shallow. It just exposed how often thinking had already been replaced by speed, repetition, and the illusion of productivity. When judgment disappears from the process, the output can look impressive and still mean nothing at all.
Yearly Archives: 2026
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Everyone is thinking. Everyone is reacting. Everyone is very busy having opinions.
Strangely, very little of this activity results in understanding.
AI is often criticized for sounding confident while being wrong. What makes people uncomfortable is not the mistake, but the familiarity. Confident answers have replaced thinking for a long time. The machine just made it obvious.
People keep saying AI does not really think. What they are reacting to is something else entirely. Not a machine failure, but a human one. Most of us have forgotten what thinking actually requires.