[rgoulter]

While "I don't have to think, I just get the LLM to do the task" is a bit careless (or a "hype" way of putting it)... I'd reckon it's always been true that you want to think about the stuff that matters and the other stuff to be done for minimal effort.

e.g. By using a cryptography library / algorithm someone else has written, I don't need to think about it (although someone has done the thinking, I hope!). Or by using a high level language, I don't need to think about how to write assembly / machine code.

Or with a tool like a spell-checker: since it checks the document, you don't have to worry about spelling mistakes.

What upsets is the imbalance between "tasks which previously required some thought/effort can now be done effortlessly". -- Stuff like "write out a document" used to signal effort had been put into it.