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by briian 378 days ago
I think the key to ensuring you don't lose your own ability to think is to just delay the onset of using AI when solving a problem.

The more deeply you think, you train your brain harder, but also improve the utility of the AI systems themselves because you can prompt better.

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There is value in trying to figure things out on your own, but even then if you can resist the temptation to let the machine think for you, I think AI is still useful for clarifying the problem and working through pros and cons of your ideas to solve it.
I constantly find myself just jumping to AI whenever I have a question. It is actually scaring me how much I just rely on it.
Of course, but there comes a point when doing long division by hand no longer adds to my understanding.