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The AI Slot Machine Effect: Why Generative Feeds Disrupt Deep Work And How to Reclaim Focus

You open a generative AI tool expecting a quick boost. Ten minutes later, you’re still there, refining a prompt for the fourth time. The task you started with has drifted off to the side somewhere. Sound familiar? Knowledge workers in 2026 are running into this more and more. It makes sense once you

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