Bruno Rocha 8/9/2026

Using AI without losing your critical thinking

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This article addresses the growing issue of developers blindly trusting AI-generated content, which the author terms 'cognitive surrender' or 'meat proxy' rather than 'AI psychosis.' The author illustrates this with an example of a pull request filled with confident but nonsensical AI-generated descriptions. They argue that critical thinking is essential to add value as an engineer, since anyone can prompt AI. The article provides guidelines for using AI correctly, starting with understanding that AI-assisted development requires human oversight and awareness of AI's limitations.

Using AI without losing your critical thinking

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