Ten Minutes With AI Turns Help Into Cognitive Debt

The institutional consequence is that AI guidance now has to be separated from AI substitution. The coverage does not condemn every chatbot interaction; it names a narrower mechanism, where direct answers teach users to exit the problem too early while hint-seeking leaves more of the cognitive load intact . That gives educators, managers, and product teams a concrete design line: tools that complete the task are no longer equivalent to tools that keep the user inside it.