The Knowledge Worker’s Dilemma: Brains Built for Insight, Systems Built for Chaos

The Knowledge Worker’s Dilemma: Brains Built for Insight, Systems Built for Chaos

Explore how modern work environments are sabotaging knowledge workers—and what neuroscience says we must do to fix it.

Over-Reliance on GenAI impacts Critical thinking; Here's how I think we can fix it

Note: The article addresses to Software Engineers, but the ideas apply to knowledge workers in every domain. I've spent considerable amount of time using GenAI past year at work. Also, having spent time with many power users, I begin to see an interesting trend. Engineers are increasingly using GenAI to accomplish wide range of tasks, from advanced software engineering problems, to drafting a simple slack message. The AI having digested the whol…