Ask HN: Pre-AI, did you think harder? Or are you thinking more (and better) now?

3 points | by rishikeshs 4 hours ago

2 comments

  • jcolot 4 hours ago
    Differently. I guess I didn't think harder, better or less before, but I remember before AI having to struggle with things I had to think about, which certainly has some virtue to learn. Now it's almost a itch, as soon as I struggle, I prompt. For sure, there must be an effect on cognition. I still enjoy thinking a lot, but I delegate the boring details to AI, so it has displaced the way I think to higher levels of abstraction, but I’m not sure if what I call "boring details" are not "struggles that I should have kept" to improve my understanding.
  • Cordango 4 hours ago
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