AI makes it easy to spend your day “snacking” on work. You pick the easy, low-impact task over the difficult one. It's done in a minute, so you reach for another. @jackcheng caught himself doing this with AI. He’d think of a feature and immediately send a model to build it. He was less likely to ask whether the feature belonged—or whether the project itself deserved his time. Losing access to the strongest models used to interrupt that cycle. His ideas had to wait, giving him time to notice…