Blog essay: "I became a cognitive empty nester thanks to AI agents"
vivekhaldar · x · 2026-10-01
Vivek Haldar's essay explores the experience of cognitive offloading once AI agents take over more of his mental workload. The quoted tweet he cites offers a contrast: product leaders keep bringing up "restaurant reservations" as the flagship personal-agent use case, which makes the original poster suspect they're struggling to find real ones too.
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