How to not become a vegetable in the age of AI

A question I keep coming back to: how to not become a vegetable in the age of AI.

If you're even asking it, you're already in the group that'll be less affected — the self-awareness to look out for it is most of the work. From there you can watch your own interactions with the AI and notice what kind of thinking it actually replaces for you.

Then you keep that muscle alive on purpose. Curate small training sessions, or little projects, around exactly the thinking the AI usually does for you in volume — the problems you'd normally hand off. It's like a target workout that is designed as a problem to solve: you still practice it yourself, now and then, so you don't forget how.