The "Learned Helplessness" of AI

Summary

Every time you ask ChatGPT to write the difficult logic, prepare a plan, or do something creative, you are doing one thing: outsourcing friction.And friction is where skill is built.We are training our brains to believe: If I can’t instantly retrieve the answer, the machine will retrieve it for me.This isn’t about being productive. This is about being functionally dependent. The moment we loose access to an LLM, we become clueless 3 year olds. I might be wrong , i’ll write another post about accelerated learning with through AI.