Your Brain Is Not Keeping Up With the AI Hype Cycle (And That's a Problem)

Christine Itwaru · 16 Apr 2026

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The problem with the AI era is not the technology but what its pace does to decision-making.

Their wordsWe are in an era that is genuinely exciting and genuinely disorienting at the same time, and the problem isn’t technology. The problem is what the pace of that technology is doing to our decision-making. The problem is our brains.
Our reading
Anxiety about each AI release makes product teams' cognitive biases work overtime.

Their wordsIn product, those shortcuts have always existed. But right now, in an environment where everyone is watching what the next AI release will do to their job, their roadmap, and their relevance, those shortcuts are working overtime.

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