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The most sophisticated intelligence in the room is still the one you were born with. AI is a remarkably capable tool. But you are not a tool. Lately, a subtle but profound shift has taken place in the relationship between knowledge workers and their tools — not in the tools themselves, but in the psychological posture people have adopted toward them. And as someone who spends as much time studying the architecture of minds as I do the architecture of systems, I find that shift worth examining honestly. ...

AI didn’t arrive. It invaded. And the thing about invasions is that nobody waits for the right time. Let’s stop pretending this is a conversation. It isn’t. The decisions were made. The training runs happened. The data was taken. The papers were published. The money moved. You found out about it the same way you find out about most things that reshape your life — after the fact, through a news article, slightly too late to matter. ...