AI as a weapon of mass cognitive destruction

I use AI every day; it’s unavoidable. But something has been grating on me for months, and it isn’t about development: non-technical people are using it to generate far too much slop. Not code slop, but business slop. Five paragraph meeting agendas. Four-page responses to a planning inquiry, because that way I get “all the facts”. A one-line question turns up dressed as a formal memo with a summary, three bullets of tangentially related sub-questions and a partridge in a pear tree. Documents that used to ru