97% of tech workers feel AI makes them better at their job, but digging deeper reveals people mean they can produce more output faster, not higher-quality output, and many report a decline in their own thinking and judgment—a 'cognitive rot.'

47:07faster, but not better. So again, AI has sort of lowered the floor of what's possible and and enabled people to put out a lot more work than they ever have before, whatever that work is, whether it's uh PRs, PRDs, research projects, prototypes, but they're not the output isn't of higher quality. And perhaps the even more concerning effect which we heard about the the deeper cost of all of this is the cost

47:42of using AI on thinking and judgment. People essentially told us my brain is rotting my work feels worse. And this this is related to phenomenon I've heard about recently like um is it cognitive rot I think is what what I've heard. Basically this phenomenon where you sort of see the initial output of an AI model and you sort of just accept it. You don't apply your judgment to it. You

48:20don't apply thinking to it and you slowly let your your mind, your involvement in your work, your agency sort of collapse into this rotting state, so to speak. >> This Yeah, this is such an interesting takeaway just uh like this is a positive there's a positive note to this. As you said, I'm looking at the numbers here. 82% of people say AI is making them at least moderately better at their job and

48:48nearly 50% say very much or extremely better which may correlate with that original just this bifurcation like the people that feel like AI is making them better at their job probably the people feel like most energized >> so whether it's true or not so I think there's a couple happy points that's one people feel AI is making them better they like they feel that so that's you

49:06know that's real even if it may not be and at the same time I think they're self-aware the quality is an issue And also I'm just maybe my I'm atrophying in my ability to say code or write strategy docs. So at least people are self-aware that this is happening. Not just I'm killing it. All my stuff is higher quality and it's much better than ever. >> They are self-aware but you know among