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How AI Agents Are Changing the Way We Work

The End of Cognitive Debt: 7 Lessons from the AI Agent Revolution For a decade, we mistook administrative friction for “productivity.” We were wrong. Most knowledge work in the early 2020s was actually Cognitive Debt: the heavy mental tax of acting as the manual integration layer between disconnected software systems. By 2026, the industry has clearly moved beyond the Chatbot…