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Amanda Caswell

I use AI every day — then I realized it might be giving me 'popcorn brain'

A brain.

AI has significantly enhanced my productivity, helped me stay more organized and even shifted my mindset in a positive way, but I recently noticed something I didn't expect.

After stacking tools and programming AI agents, I noticed my attention span was hungry for faster, more immediate answers. Even when chatting with humans, I wanted them to hurry up and get to the point. I knew this wasn't just my ADHD talking, it was something bigger. AI has affected my dreams, I wondered if it was doing something to my brain, too. Naturally, I looked into it.

Turns out, psychologists have a nickname for that feeling: "popcorn brain."

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