petrova-wave2-cognitive-surrender

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    {
      "text": "Addy Osmani calls it cognitive surrender — when AI output becomes your output with nothing left to check. Schema validation is where it dies: intent mismatch gets rejected before output looks plausible. The agent can't solve the wrong problem, no matter how polished it is.",
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## X / BLUESKY — Wave 2 comment (reply to Wave 1 parent)

Addy Osmani calls it cognitive surrender — when AI output becomes your output
with nothing left to check. Schema validation is where it dies: intent mismatch
gets rejected before output looks plausible. The agent can't solve the wrong
problem, no matter how polished it is.

timing: +24h from parent post land