> If you use this junk, it's making you dumber and damaging your critical thinking skills, full-stop.
Arguably I've been using my critical thinking skills more now that I have a smooth talking, but ultimately not actually intelligent companion.
Every time I put undue trust in it, I regret it, so I got used to veryfing what it outputs via documentation and sometimes even library code.
That being said worst part of this mess is that my usual sources of knowledge like search engines or developer forums dried up, as everyone else is also using LLMs.
Arguably I've been using my critical thinking skills more now that I have a smooth talking, but ultimately not actually intelligent companion.
Every time I put undue trust in it, I regret it, so I got used to veryfing what it outputs via documentation and sometimes even library code.
That being said worst part of this mess is that my usual sources of knowledge like search engines or developer forums dried up, as everyone else is also using LLMs.