Perhaps not surprising given what we know about how e.g. satnav usage affects our navigational competence. Feels like outsourcing our reasoning and problem solving would have an analagous effect.
I am much better at navigating my home town than San Francisco precisely because I moved to SF by the time of Google Maps.
I caught myself at some point feeling like that was happening when going over my own codebase. I stopped being aggressive on AI usage for important stuff, and relegated for side stuff that I just want to get started.
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Perhaps not surprising given what we know about how e.g. satnav usage affects our navigational competence. Feels like outsourcing our reasoning and problem solving would have an analagous effect.
"Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62877-0
I am much better at navigating my home town than San Francisco precisely because I moved to SF by the time of Google Maps.
I caught myself at some point feeling like that was happening when going over my own codebase. I stopped being aggressive on AI usage for important stuff, and relegated for side stuff that I just want to get started.