Excellent post!

“I'm also concerned about the second-order effects. Because switching into the often-required deep mental focus is very difficult (borderline painful), I've seen many, many people reach for LLMs in those moments instead, first a little, then entirely. I've watched people copy/paste API docs into Gemini prompts to explain them. I've watched people unable to find syntax errors in code and paste it into ChatGPT to fix it. I'm confident I'm not the only person who's observed this, and it's a little maddening it's not getting more play”

That’s exactly why I stopped using LLM’s. Then people turn around and say “but.. you’ll get left behind.”

Yeah, nah. I value my ability to hold concepts and reason deeply and sit in those painful moments - I’m not letting go of this conditioning that pays dividends over the long term.