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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 04/11/2026 03:30 EDT

AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking

AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it’s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year’s Day 2026, a programmer named Steve Yegge launched an open-source platform called Gas Town. It lets users orchestrate swarms of AI coding agents simultaneously, assembling software at speeds […]
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