Watching Intelligence Lose Its Friction |
I didn’t spend this year chasing model releases or debating whether artificial intelligence has crossed some abstract threshold. What kept attracting me was something quieter and, in many ways, more personal. It was how interacting with AI has begun to change the feel of thinking itself.
At some point in 2025, I realized that large language models are no longer experienced as tools. They have become sources of resolution. Today, we don’t just ask them for help, we let them finish things for us. That shift is often subtle enough to feel benign, yet profound enough to alter the very "cognitive posture" we bring to the world.
Much of my writing in 2025 circled this cognitive curiosity. I kept noticing how effortlessly AI produces language that sounds complete. And it wasn't merely grammatical or informative, but created a sense of "techno-