Hey, welcome back to Edge Igniter. I'm Alex Rivers.

So — I want to talk to you about something that I've been sitting with for a while now. Something I've noticed in myself, honestly, and in a lot of people I speak with. And it's this: the faster we move with AI tools, the more we have to be careful about what we're leaving behind.

I'm calling it the AI Augmentation Trap. And here's the thing — it doesn't announce itself. You don't feel yourself falling into it. It feels like progress. It is progress, in a way. You're producing more, responding faster, thinking at scale you couldn't before. But there's a question underneath all of that, and it doesn't get asked enough.

Are you getting smarter — or is the tool getting smarter while you coast?

That's what we're unpacking today.

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