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Addy Osmani warns of “cognitive surrender”: when the agent's answer becomes yours without you checking

Addy Osmani (@addyosmani) published the article “Critical thinking when agents do the work,” describing a spectrum from offloading (delegating while keeping responsibility) to “cognitive surrender” — a term he attributes to Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave (Wharton): the AI's output silently becomes yours, with no urge to check. He says he is a fan of agentic workflows and proposes habits of hypothesis, verification and ownership of what ships.