Instant answers and the endless next step: habit, compulsive use, work that expands, and the body.
Open questions
- Why we misjudge our speed with AI
- Habit, dependence or rational reliance
- Flow or dark flow
- What AI use does to the body
Papers
- Yu et al 2026 - The speedup illusion
- Becker et al 2025 - METR developer productivity
- METR 2026 - Developer productivity update
- Fang et al 2025 - Psychosocial effects of chatbot use
- Kirk et al 2025 - Relationship-seeking AI
- Cheng et al 2026 - Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions
- OpenAI 2025 - Expanding on sycophancy
- Schull 2012 - Addiction by design
- Clark et al 2009 - Gambling near-misses
- Allcott Gentzkow Song 2022 - Digital addiction
- Ciudad-Fernandez et al 2025 - Questioning ChatGPT addiction
- Perlis et al 2026 - Generative AI use and depressive symptoms
- Shen et al 2026 - The AI genie phenomenon
- De Freitas et al 2025 - Emotional manipulation by AI companions
- Kran et al 2025 - DarkBench
- Ranganathan Ye 2026 - AI intensifies work
- Stack Overflow 2025 - Developer survey AI
- Gruning et al 2023 - Self-nudge one sec
- Ghibellini Meier 2025 - Zeigarnik and Ovsiankina effects
- Zhang et al 2023 - Interventions for problematic phone use
- OpenAI 2025 - What we are optimizing ChatGPT for
People
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