thank you for putting into words that which has been hard for me to describe — I’ve noticed the worse a dev was at their job the more high their opinions of AI seem to be. The subject textbook analogy (trig book in your ex.) is a perfect frame of reference for why that might be the case…

to further that example, many people with the help of AI are ostensibly copy pasting trig problems from the book without understanding the mechanics running through them and labouring under the impressions they’ve become closer to skilled mathematicians