You Already Know the Answer. So Why Did You Reach for Your Phone?

I noticed something unsettling recently.

I spend more and more time using tools. And I'm not sure how much of my own judgment is still left.

It's not that the tools are bad. They're good — good enough that I've stopped asking myself first.

Does Using More AI Mean You Know Less?

I came across a paper recently — KAPRO (arXiv:2606.20661) — that tested a surprisingly simple question: