https://nappingtoheavymetal.com/series/advancing-ai-without-melting-my-brain/a space for curiosity and conviction 🤘🏼en-UShttps://nappingtoheavymetal.com/post/2026-10-25-advancing-ai-without-melting-my-brain-human-words/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700https://nappingtoheavymetal.com/post/2026-10-25-advancing-ai-without-melting-my-brain-human-words/<p>AI is fascinating, as is the human brain. And now our brains are on AI every day.</p> <p>My days are full of coding agents and AI-driven work. I am often in these conversation loops with AI, scanning over text to find the key bits of information I need to keep it going on its own for a while longer. Sometimes I see immediately what I need in the AI text, and other times I feel like I am on the hunt for information in a sea of mush. It puts my brain in a mode to scan for information differently than before. The shift to using skimming and scanning reading techniques more started well before generative AI<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>; I think working with AI pushes us even more in that direction. It takes effort to slow back down and read not for the information but for the benefits to our human brains.</p>