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Open original source ↗AI quantifies the cognitive cost of context switching.
It’s only a metaphor, and our biological brains may work differently, but much of the work with AI is loading in the context first and only *then* expecting it to reason.
And AIs, like humans, get confused if you are switching context constantly mid-stream.
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Elon Musk on how he deals with running many different companies: “Well, I have a lot of inbound communication, so it’s basically information triage. I try to segment my days to avoid too much context switching. Because, arguably, fear isn’t the mind-killer—context switching is. It’s hard not to context-switch when your inbox is full of stuff, but think about it: if you had to context-switch every three seconds, every thirty seconds, or even every three minutes, the cognitive penalty would be enormous.”
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