How I Fight AI Brain Rot. Friction Maxxing With Codex, Grok And Claude.

AI brain rot is everywhere right now, and most of the advice is to use AI less. I do the opposite. I add friction on purpose, and this is how that works in practice across Codex, Grok and Claude. Full post: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/fight-ai-brain-rot?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true My Links 🔗 - 👉🏻 Newsletter: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/ - 👉🏻 X: https://x.com/natebjones - 👉🏻 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nate.b.jones - 👉🏻 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nate.b.jones What's really happening inside AI brain rot? The common story is that AI makes you lazy — but the real question is whether the work keeps looking finished while you quietly stop making the decisions. In this video, I share the inside scoop on how I use disagreement to keep my own judgment sharp: - Why brain rot can look exactly like high productivity - How I size up a new agent before I trust it - What the MIT ChatGPT study actually says and does not say - Where I add friction and where I let AI run AI can make you faster and sharper at the same time, but only if you keep hold of the decisions that were actually yours to make. Chapters: 00:00 Friction maxing and why AI is not rotting my brain 01:04 What the MIT study actually says 04:28 The wrong spreadsheet 06:07 The hard boundary and testing three agents 09:13 Why AI interfaces pull you toward the middle 12:36 Test time learning and how humans already do it 14:43 Chipping away until the idea is right 16:21 Design taste and the colors Claude keeps reaching for 19:13 Why I stopped using Gemini 22:34 Which models need extra source checks 24:24 Where are you in this journey Listen to this video as a podcast. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0gkFdjd1wptEKJKLu9LbZ4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-news-strategy-daily-with-nate-b-jones/id1877109372