There is published research demonstrating the effect, but sure, snark your way into your own confirmation bias. Why not?

The idea that humans in general actually do any thinking is demonstrably false.

Give me a break, I read the article, I'm not convinced does anything to further his specific claims about the community. Frankly the whole thing is just a rant about how things were better back when.

"But the tradecraft is slipping. Analysts are skipping the hard parts. They’re trusting GenAI to do the heavy cognitive lifting, and it’s changing how we operate at a foundational level."

Next we're going to be hearing about how participation trophies and DEI are also contributing to this imagined "problem."