I feel like my calculator improves my math solutions. If you take away my calculator, I'll probably be worse at math than I was before. That doesn't mean I'm not better off with my calculator however.
That's a pretty interesting take on it, I hadn't considered it like that before when I was considering if my skills were atrophying or not from LLM usage with coding.
If it did, would it change its usefulness in terms of the value it outputs? (through agreed, if I had to pay money it would increase the cost, and so the tradeoff)