Thinking Will Become a Hobby: Spinellis on ceding cognition to AI
pranitha_m · hn · 2026-10-13
In a new essay, software engineering scholar Diomidis Spinellis argues that as AI takes over more analysis, design, and decision-making, deep thinking is fading from a professional necessity into a hobby. Like physical labor replaced by machines turned exercise into leisure, reasoning risks losing its daily practice. He urges knowledge workers to deliberately preserve independent judgment rather than outsourcing all cognition to models.
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