Generative AI is addictive, there are multiple reasons for this phenomenon.
- LLMs give the impression of reduced resistance, making us opt for this path often and reinforcing itself
- It simplifies and speeds up tasks massively. It gets you to the goal quickly, giving you a dopamine hit.
- It reduces (constructive) friction. But (perhaps unknowingly) shift it to administrative friction.
- If every solution is just one question away why bother trying to do it yourself?
Once you start using AI, the habit will reinforce itself and you become more reliant on it. Offloading more tasks to these models. With this incredibly strong hammer, everything will suddenly become a nail. You want to quickly build or fix something, thus you grab towards this technology.
Whilst this is a great and true innovation, it also comes with the downside that you outsource your thinking.
It’s like a constant voice in the back of your head, ‘You could use an AI for that’.