>drivers lose wayfinding sense with GPS

My experience is the opposite. I find that while Google maps on my phone is a more than suitable replacement for the now almost impossible to get road Atlas of my youth, with the expanded metropolitan maps that were always out of date, my skills haven't been degrading. I'm now able to get real time feedback of traffic conditions to make better choices between routes I know by heart.

Just this past week I took a friend to visit someone out in the far suburbs, I used Google maps to get there, but he was astonished that I was completely comfortable driving home without it, despite all the twists and turns of modern US suburbs.

My experience with LLMs generating code is similar, they are better guides than the old school method of reading the manual and other books, but I remain able to get a handle on the code written when necessary.