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PROMPTS are making you STUPID.

But our cognitive decline is not directly AI’s fault.

9 min readDec 22, 2025

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The unSmart epidemic
How we glitch our brains out of thinking.

Ok, this is going to be hard to believe. I’m cautious about using AI. There are usecases that I strongly support it (coding help), but with most of “creative” generators I see more issues than solutions.

But I wasn’t ready for that!

I ran a little experiment. The results terrified me. I ran another one and it went even worse. When I discussed these results with some friends, they didn’t believe me.

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The Nano Banana Prompt that went Viral

The experiment

I shared a detailed Nano Banana prompt on X, and half a million people seen it in a day. I even asked people to steal it without credit.

Yes, I personally encouraged people to steal my prompt.

Why? We’ll get to that!

It went viral. Government officials from some countries started sharing.
Google Gemini’s official account praised it.

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