What Addy Osmani thinks about AI and human skill

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Engineering leader and author who spent 14 years at Google, most of it on Chrome and Chrome DevTools, rising from software engineer to director of engineering, and who created TodoMVC and helped push Core Web Vitals.

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1. 19 Aug 2026

   Our readingHeavy AI use erodes understanding first and judgement second: cognitive debt turns into cognitive surrender, where the model's answer simply becomes your answer.

   Their wordsthe first is cognitive debt. So the more that you use AI, it's it's sort of the erosion of your ability to have good memory and have good understanding of the problems that you're working on. And the natural follow-up to that is cognitive surrender, which is where you, you know, you blindly give in to whatever the AI says as your answer.

   ↗From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmaniyoutube.com 10th of 22 in this recording