AI makes critical thinking harder to build

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

Key takeaways:

• AI has removed the friction that used to build critical thinking naturally.
• Less confidence in judgment leads to more AI deferral.
• Leaders should make critical thinking an explicit expectation and build it into reviews and postmortems.

Early in my engineering career I led a project. It was one of those formative experiences where I encountered many of the classic tropes of software engineering – unknown unknowns, unruly scope, and even cache invalidation woes. I remember telling my manager it was painful, but despite the slog, those experiences felt like gold.

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