It's to train our brain.

If you're overwhelmed by AI this-that-and-the-other right now, you might be missing the point: Right now, we get to improve our brain’s neuroplasticity like never before.

Here's the thought experiment that changed how I see this:

"What would you do with a million dollars?"

It’s a deceptively hard question right? Most people can’t immediately answer it. And before you answer, remember to quote Office Space: “You don’t need a million dollars to do nothin man. Look at my cousin, he’s broke don’t do s***!”

Now try: "What would you build if you could build anything?"

Equally tough.

That's the real challenge of this moment. It’s learning the tools that’s hard—it’s learning to think bigger because the tools now let us.

Yes, there's a way to use AI that shrinks your brain:

• Cheating on exams as a student
• Cheating on professional work as an adult
• And cheating on your spouse with LucyGPT.

That dumbification is real. I won't pretend it isn't.

But here's what I've noticed building with AI daily:

Solving complex problems—architecting systems, connecting patterns across domains, debugging logic I couldn't hold in my head alone—activates my frontal cortex in ways that feel like growth, not atrophy. Like solving a wonderful crossword.

Some skills I used to have? Probably fading. I don't bust out my abacus much these days.

But we all get to see the bigger picture like never before. Our brains can architect entire systems instead of paragraphs.

The trade-off isn't "smart vs. dumb."

It's "which kind of thinking are we training?"