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In "Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender" [1], a third level of the human thinking process was introduced where argues that besides internal intuition (level 1) and deliberation (level 2), there's a third one which is external and is the well-known to everyone, AI.

Humans now can choose to either completely surrender to that external intelligence, called cognitive surrender or choose to just offload tasks and use it alongside their own reasoning.

It's up to us how to use it. I've recently joined a new company and I had to explore their massive codebase. Even my manager suggested that I should use an agent to help me with the onboarding but I went straight to the code and whenever I had a new task, I would explore the code to understand what is happening and then instruct the agent to do any tasks I thought should be done.

There are moments when I completely hand off to the agent without looking any diffs, but my main focus is understanding first and then handing off.

1: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399711077_Thinking-...