Scott Adams has a simple hypothesis: laziness isn’t a lack of energy. It’s a cognitive bug, the habit of focusing on cost rather than benefit.

BJ Fogg says something similar with his “tiny habits”: reduce friction to initiate behavior.

But what happens when friction collapses? AI just did that.

It drives the execution cost of many tasks down to nearly nothing. And suddenly, the naked question appears: where was the benefit, exactly?

What’s cruel for many tasks and professions is that they derived their legitimacy from the effort required, not the value produced. Effort was the perceived value. And someone was billing for it.

When you reduce friction on something with no real payoff, you don’t create a habit. You expose a void.

Laziness isn’t the problem. It’s the symptom and AI is the revealer.