Kevin Beaumont“Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
eos@GossiTheDog I can feel this myself, and have seen it in others.
As with similar things in life, I've felt that internal sense of "I don't need to keep this in my head now something external can be used" - maybe an extreme continuation of the "I can just google that" phenomenon.
When you're outsourcing the thinking for your main source of income, that becomes a scarier thing to start doing.