[graydsl]

I would also argue, that most school system forbid the usage of a calculator the first couple of years (at least that's how it was Germany a few decades ago). The same with writing per hand. You can spell check by looking the word up and then manually correcting it.

Both require manual "labor" which leads to learning.

[hirako2000]

And calculators took decades to become widespread. So we could learn of their side effects before they became mainstream.

Also to note. Calculators merely solve intermediary steps. LLMs are increasingly designed to do a one shot full blown work. Longer context, deep thinking, agentic loops.