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Google Search Has Been Quietly Poisoning Your AI Skills

The habit that made you good at searching is making you terrible at prompting

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Cassie Kozyrkov
Feb 05, 2026
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You’ve been in training for a few decades now. Not the kind you signed up for, not the kind you’d want, but it was remarkably effective... at making you bad at AI.

In some ways, you could blame Google. They didn’t do this to you on purpose, but they did it nonetheless. Let me explain.

But first, a quick ad break: My new course will run on-demand soon, wit…

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