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Agentic Engineering Weekly for May 1-9, 2026

DORA weighs in on ROI in enterprise, cognitive surrender, the enemy of my OpenAI enemy is my xAI friend.

https://agentic-engineering-weekly.jovaneyck.be/agentic-engineering-weekly-for-may-1-9-2026/

#DORA #OpenAI #Anthropic #xAI #CognitiveSurrender #AgenticEngineering

Agentic Engineering Weekly for May 1-9, 2026

This week DORA weighs in on AI-assisted software development ROI in enterprise, the bottleneck conversation finally is starting to move up- and downstream from code to organization concerns, we gave the cognitive cost a sharper name and it turns out that in dire times, the enemy of my OpenAI enemy

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Thomas Decker Apr 19

@glyph in education papers i've seen the terms #CognitiveDebt and #CognitiveSurrender , is that helpful to what you're describing?

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Apr 10

Ars Technica: “Cognitive surrender” leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds. “On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review to detect reasoning or factual flaws in responses. On the other side are those who routinely outsource their critical thinking to what they see as an all-knowing machine. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/10/ars-technica-cognitive-surrender-leads-ai-users-to-abandon-logical-thinking-research-finds/

Ars Technica: “Cognitive surrender” leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

sonicJazzMonkey Apr 9

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002tpw0?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

The decline of reading / our cognitive decline. Interesting podcast.

#podcast #BBCSounds #reading #cognitivesurrender #ai #screentime #socialmedia #reality #smartphones

Radical with Amol Rajan - The Reading Recession: Are We Making Ourselves Less Intelligent? (James Marriott) - BBC Sounds

Tracing the historical relationship between reading, intelligence and democracy.

BBC

Swader Apr 8

How AI melts brains. #cognitivesurrender

https://gizmodo.com/cognitive-surrender-is-a-new-and-useful-term-for-how-ai-melts-brains-2000742595

‘Cognitive Surrender’ Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains

Once you learn this term, you will unfortunately see it everywhere.

Gizmodo

Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers Apr 6

I feel like people aren't talking enough about not remember phone numbers like people used to back in the day.

Or how kids aren't learning cursive anymore.

Or how these same kids don't know how to use computers.

Or how to install an operating system by putting command.com and himem.sys on a floppy drive.

Or even what a floppy drive is?

#CognitiveSurrender

Mason Loring Bliss Apr 6

While finding issues with LLMs is like shooting fish in a barrel, I like to see studies with data to back them up, that focus on specific areas. This is one such.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/

#ai #llm #cognitivesurrender

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

Ars Technica

Jeremy Mallin Apr 4

I wonder how many of the studies concluding that x% of people think a certain way are only referring to x% of allistic people.

#CognitiveSurrender #PeerPressure #GroupThink

#RandomThoughts

Cyberpunk Dystopia Apr 4

Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

"Today’s society increasingly relies on external cognitive agents (such as algorithms, recommender systems, and generative AI) to interpret information, form judgments, and guide decisions. [...] cognitive surrender represents a deeper abdication of critical evaluation, where the user relinquishes cognitive control and adopts the AI's judgment as their own."

#AI #CognitiveSurrender

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646