The people who spend 23 hours a day running agents and outputting 300 slop emails an hour aren’t seeking cognition, they’re seeking quick rewards; “working” with “AI” isn’t a cognitive task so much as it’s a gambling task. Just keep asking Claude to try again on that PR and eventually you get that dopamine hit from it making a not-totally-shitty solution and you never had to actually engage your higher brain function, you just did lots of low level churn of “prompting”.
The people who spend 23 hours a day running agents and outputting 300 slop emails an hour aren’t seeking cognition, they’re seeking quick rewards; “working” with “AI” isn’t a cognitive task so much as it’s a gambling task. Just keep asking Claude to try again on that PR and eventually you get that dopamine hit from it making a not-totally-shitty solution and you never had to actually engage your higher brain function, you just did lots of low level churn of “prompting”.