Stay Sassy PM: AI cognitive offloading will boost convenience services
Stay Sassy PM · ⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy · Apr 13, 2026 · at 26:33
Stay Sassy product manager explains how AI's reduction of consumer willingness to exert cognitive effort benefits delivery platforms like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Instacart.
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“I would say, I think that this could be really good for any sort of service that makes, that allows people to be kind of lazy, because I think that AI has a very strong ability to just sort of reduce people's willingness to do work. It's like you could offload so much to it that I think that we are training people in a certain For a certain set of consumer behaviors, the same way that social media has sort of trained brains to accept, or to expect a very, very heavy stream of dopamine, I think that works. We're training people to not want to exert large amounts of cognitive effort on tasks. And I think that some of the winners of that, other than I guess, you know, people who are trying to write essays in college or whatever, are any sorts of services that allow you to just reduce the total cognitive load of whatever task it was that you were trying to perform.”
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