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The constraint here is cognitive atrophy. Offload too much judgment to an AI tool and the underlying skill stops compounding.
Sandra Matz, a professor at Columbia Business School, frames the career risk in specific terms: workers who deploy AI incorrectly risk "gradually falling behind and becoming complacent," a dynamic she describes as becoming professionally "boring." How the skill gap opens Complacency is the surface symptom.
The structural issue is that professional skills develop through repeated decision-making, and AI short-circuits that loop when it substitutes for judgment rather than assisting it.
A worker who lets AI draft every analysis, frame every argument, and flag every risk stops practicing those operations.
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