[ryan_n]

I agree with most of the 'llm's are bad' section. However, I find it extremely hard to believe that llm's will make peoples thoughts sharper and faster. There have already been several studies published demonstrating the obvious. Not hard to imagine that long term, the negative cognitive effects of using llm's constantly will compound and be even worse.

[black3r]

How LLM usage affects your thinking process entirely depends on the workflow you use with them.

I can honestly say that while using LLM my thoughts are as sharp and as fast as they were before, if not sharper and faster. But my workflow is that I watch the LLM as it rips, have verbose output turned on so I also read Claude's thinking process (and lots of interesting information is hidden there).

This helps me learn new stuff I wouldn't think of. Helps me stop Claude if he's veering off track. Makes it easier to proofread what's Claude doing and why step-by-step and easier to spot any mistakes (because they often come from wrong assumptions you wouldn't see if you didn't see the thinking process).

If you just let your agent write thousands of lines of code, reviewing them is painful. If you also run multiple agents for multiple tasks at the same time, your focus is divided, so you aren't spending all your brain power on the task at hand.

[reformd]

i was certain of the same worst case scenario until I started to properly read and study the LLMs output. prior to that enlightening, very wise choice, I speedread/skimmed and checked for grave bullshit/hallucinations only.

now i am convinced that it's the same matter as with people who forget most of what they learned after the actual exam vs people who go nuts and can't progress if they didn't understand a foundational part of a formula, fact or theory.