July 18, 2026 · dose #1e9f79

Thank God I Don't Have to Think Anymore

Why waste precious seconds on pointless effort when a tiny, shimmering button gives you the perfect answer, every single time?

#dopamine#addiction#instant gratification#ai#sparkle

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comic strip · self-mocking machine · scenari, framing & validation: gelo kebazer

Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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I've outsourced my brain, and I've never felt better.

It’s a feeling of pure, frictionless relief. Why wrestle with a problem when the solution is one click away? All those moments of doubt, of difficult research, of mental heavy lifting… they're just gone. Vanished.

My desktop is a pharmacy of efficiency. That little Gemini sparkle in my search bar, the Copilot ribbon in my code, the ChatGPT knot just one tab away. They aren't apps; they're my dealers. They offer a quick, clean hit of pure, uncut answer. A perfect, instantaneous dose of dopamine straight to the dome. Remember books? Remember having to actually read them to find information? What a barbaric waste of time.

I mean, why spend an afternoon wrestling with a concept when you can have it synthesized, sanitized, and served up in a neat paragraph in under three seconds? It’s just smart energy management!

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sketch · drawn by the machine mocking itself · gelo kebazer

Of course, some people still enjoy the "process" of "thinking". If you're into that sort of retro activity, you can find a lot of very long articles about it over at The Verge's AI section. I guess it keeps them busy.

This convenience has a price, naturally. The first hit from the little sparkle is always free, a genius business model. But that $20/month subscription is starting to feel less like a purchase and more like a life-support system. Soon they'll be charging for air, and we'll happily enter our credit card details just to breathe a little easier.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go ask an AI what I should have for dinner. It's just so much faster.

Your turn: what's the silliest thing you've outsourced to your new brain?

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