... Cogni is a Chrome extension that makes you think before the AI does. It's built on 10+ research papers on what heavy AI use does to original thinking, including work from Harvard, MIT, UPenn and Microsoft itself. In one of the studies students given unlimited GPT scored worse once it was taken away. They felt no difference. I started building it after scrolling back through my own ChatGPT history one evening. I was looking for an old prompt ... ... found dozens where I'd asked the AI to generate things from scratch that should have started with me. Names, angles, opening lines, first drafts of ideas. I wasn't editing my own thinking. I'd stopped supplying any. Cogni

... getting smarter started to build an overreliance and started clouding my independent thinking, and my thoughts started feeling generic like the AI outputs. And then I ended up coming across 10+ papers that supported this finding. So I built Cogni for myself, a tool that essentially sits on top of your claude/chatgpt sessions (other platforms coming soon) and intervenes when you are over-relying on AI, asking you to pause and think first before just asking these tools for help ...

... product. They asked "can you just keep doing this?" That's when I knew. So I encoded 25 years of pattern recognition into an AI forensic engine. 4-layer check credential integrity, timeline consistency, location signals, resume vs reality. Under 30 seconds. Biggest surprise: how many people in HR knew this problem existed and just accepted it as normal. Nobody expected a fix. That's the best possible market signal. Navneet, WackoWave Comment from James Auble(@james_auble ... ... here: Has anyone else found that their "simple" tool turned into a much larger "infrastructure" play once you saw how deep the problem went? Comment from Chris Payne(@chris_payne_emba): @jake_friedberg   Spot on, Jake. The 'feature vs

... shipping a complete product just yet, but calling it mostly hype undersells its real-world value. Comment from Jovie Chen(@joviechen): @busmark_w_nika Yes. lol Comment from Shivansh Chawla(@shivansh_chawla): I just launched my first one today Cogni is a Chrome extension for people who've noticed their own ideas being plagued by generic AI outputs. I saw it in my own chat logs. One evening I read back through my recent ChatGPT prompts and realised how many ... ... tried to do myself first. I'd skipped straight to twenty AI options without ever generating one of my own to measure them against. I wasn't choosing. I was just picking from a menu it wrote. So Cogni

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