You ask AI something. It answers. You skim it, nod, copy-paste it, move on to the next tab.
Small moment. Happens fifty times a day. Nobody thinks twice about it.
But somewhere in that skim-nod-paste move, the roles flipped. The AI did the thinking. You did the agreeing. Agreeing without checking used to be your job's failure mode, not your habit.
We talk a lot about AI being too agreeable — the yes-man chatbot, the one that calls your bad idea genius because pushback might earn a thumbs-down. Fair complaint. Written about endlessly.
what about? you read what it gave you, feel that little hit of relief at not having to think anymore, and say "yeah, this works." Not because it actually works. Because checking takes effort, and effort was the whole thing you came here to skip.
