we got to the point of saturation. let me paint a picture here. I query a chatbot on my browser and as i was reading it, i have a question about a particular term and i did not want to trigger another query to the same chatbot as i am worried to keep the flow neat and easy to structure for later reference. so on to my right side of the browser, i fire up a browser assistant and ask it a few questions that i don't understand or the concepts I want to learn further. then i get stuck with a different question. then i click option + space to fire up chatgpt and ask it a different question. i now have 3 chatbots running simultaneously answering me different aspects of the initial query. i'm not done yet as grok was turned on long before for maybe if my mouth utters some words, it can answer those questions. now, it's 4. simultaneously twinkling around the same original thought. same story repeats while reading a book, coding, working on a design or anything. thoughts go in different directions and a million questions. and, did you ever feel it like.. you read the first two parts of the response and then immediately you are sending the next prompt. it's cuz that's enough information for the brain to take the next action. it feels funny to me when people say "you know this tool?" i mean there are ten thousand others which do the same thing. should I know that particular tool alone? nah. i was using something else and did not feel the need to know the next flashy tool. fair from one side. but, i think you at least have an idea of what the next tool is. maybe not because you need to know an alternative exists but to know what it differentiates from the one you're using. i know I'm talking two sides here. but here's what i'm actually getting at. the fact that there are ten thousand tools doing the same thing is not just annoying. that's a symptom. it means we've solved the surface problem, access to AI, so many times over that we're now just repackaging the same solution in different wrappers. meanwhile, the real problem is what all this access is doing to us. there is this amazing book called 'thinking fast and slow' by Daniel Kahneman. he has this amazing analogy of how the brain works. we have a fast system and a slow system. the fast one is automatic, instinctive, pattern matching. the slow one is deliberate, effortful, reflective. what AI is doing right now is supercharging the fast system. it's feeding us instant context, instant definitions, instant associations. which is great. but if we don't protect the slow system, we start mistaking access for absorption. and i think we're already there. AI is in almost every aspect and our adaption curve is slow. evolution is usually slow. like gaining wisdom. and i see there are AI tools which market as 'you can read an entire book in just 10 minutes' so you don't have to spend a lot of time reading. i mean what the heck is that? for me, the point of reading is to get lost in thoughts. i 'want' to spend time reading. reading something and getting lost in the thoughts gives us wisdom. we can't just fast forward the reading aspect and expect to get to the part of enticing ourselves with wisdom. it just doesn't work that way. sure, before reading something or watching a movie we watch a trailer or go through a book review. those help us decide. but they're not replacing the actual experience. we have more AI than we need because we keep solving for speed when the actual problem is space. space to think. space to sit with difficulty. space to not know something immediately. the saturation isn't just about the number of tools. it's about what happens when every moment of friction gets smoothed away. we're optimizing ourselves out of the very thing that makes thinking possible.