AI brain fry is real
Gary Tan, Andrej Karpathy, Francesco Bonacci writing about "Vibe Coding Paralysis." The signal is everywhere... AI isn't just changing how we work, it's changing how our brains feel after work.
A Boston Consulting Group study of 1,488 workers put a name to it: "AI brain fry," a mental fog from excessive oversight of AI tools that leads to difficulty focusing, slower decisions, and headaches. Productivity peaks at three simultaneous AI tools and then drops. Meanwhile, Axios reports that work with AI agents is "starting to look less like a fun quirk and more like a pathology."
We don't fully understand the impact AI is having on us as a cognitive system. The technology has the capability, but I'm not sure we have the cognitive capacity to keep up.