Solving AI over-reliance: Building a tool for active reasoning with LLMs (I need your feedback)
My job role is AI Adoption specialist: Basically I help companies across various industries (finance, automotive, consulting) integrating LLMs into their workflows. Recently, I’ve identified an emerging trend that affects daily users (me included). So, I'm looking to solve it.
The problem is called Cognitive Offloading.
Instead of just using AI to accelerate execution, people are increasingly delegating their entire thought and reasoning processes to it. They approve results without working through the steps, which leads to a disconnect from their own work and, over time, erodes critical thinking. I’m feeling it myself and that is why I’ve started noticing this pattern in other people.
The Idea: I want to develop a tool/solution designed to help professionals collaborate with AI without losing track of their own reasoning. The goal is to keep the human actively engaged in the decision-making loop, ensuring AI acts as a cognitive multiplier rather than a replacement for thinking.
So I want to know if this is widespread or just me.
If you like to contribute, here is a short survey (2 min) to understand whether this is a real pain for others or it is just me: https://forms.gle/TaWrEnYRyfaCoF166
I'll share the results openly here. And if there's enough signal, I'm thinking about building something around it, a tool that helps you work with AI without losing track of your own reasoning.
Does this resonate with anyone?
Posted Jun 17, 2026, 1:13 PM UTC