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344-Touch Grass Before You Prompt Again With Menil Vukovic

23 August 2026 1:52:14 Elias Martin

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We challenge the AI hype by asking what we gain in productivity and what we lose in creativity, attention, and basic human skills. We argue for moderation: use AI as a tool, keep your brain in the driver’s seat, and don’t let convenience replace learning, walking, and real-world connection. 
• Why extreme positions fail and why balance matters in tech and life 
• Too many apps, consumerism, and choice paralysis as a product problem 
• Privacy trade-offs and why “free” platforms can make you the product 
• Touch grass as a serious digital wellbeing practice, not a meme 
• When AI helps creativity versus when it replaces it 
• How AI changes software engineering productivity for juniors and seniors 
• A real company experiment: YOLO phase, no-AI phase, full-AI phase, then hybrid 
• Why AI and military use feels uniquely dangerous due to nondeterminism 
• US versus Europe approaches to AI regulation and the case for a middle ground 
• AI music, Spotify competition, and the messy future of copyright 
• Startup takeaways: learning from failure, defining success, and compound effort over time 
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