[jplusequalt]

Had to drop in here to call you out for completely missing the point of the article.

The whole point is that these LLMs build up a dependence because your critical thinking skills need not apply when a data center can average together passable answer for you.

[stavros]

Again, as I've said many times in the comments here, if you need something, you'll keep it. If you don't keep it, it means you don't need it. If your critical skills atrophy, it's because you never need to use them, and if you never need to use them, what's the problem?