Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task

I’ve been waiting for a paper on this subject every since 2022 and gpt’s introduction to the masses, pretty much confirms the widely held belief that brain connectivity systematically scales down with the amount of external support. I appreciate that they added the search engine testing group as an intermediate between the brain only and LLM group

I can’t believe riding a horse and carriage wouldn’t make you better at riding a horse. Sure a horserider wouldn’t want to practice the wrong way, but anyone else just wants to get somewhere

Why not try it for social media? There’s got to be the world’s largest class action lawsuit if we can get some science behind what that industry has done.

Or working as an engineering manager.

It's the inevitable consequence of working at a different level of abstraction. It's not the end of the world. My assembly is rusty too...

> I can’t believe riding a horse and carriage wouldn’t make you better at riding a horse.

Surely you mean "would"? Because riding a horse and carriage doesn't imply any ability at riding a horse, but the reverse relation would actually make sense, as you already have historical, experiential, intimate knowledge of a horse despite no contemporaneous, immediate physical contact.

Similarly, already knowing what you want to write would make you more proficient at operating a chatbot to produce what you want to write faster—but telling a chatbot a vague sense of the meaning you want to communicate wouldn't make you better at communicating. How would you communicate with the chatbot what you want if you never developed the ability to articulate what you want by learning to write?

EDIT: I sort of understand what you might be getting at—you can learn to write by using a chatbot if you mimic the chatbot like the chatbot mimics humans—but I'd still prefer humans learn directly from humans rather than rephrased by some corporate middle-man with unknown quality and zero liability.