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Cognitive surrender refers to humans blindly accepting any result produced by the loop ("since AI made it, it must be right"), which causes understanding debt to climb further.
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What Is Loop Engineering? A Full Breakdown of AI Agent Automated Workflows
bilibili赛博门外憨10/26/2026
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