One of the effects of AI that is not discussed enough is the threat of cognitive laziness. I'm seeing it happen in real time. Everything is being reduced to an LLM prompt. People stop thinking and learning as they relegate everything to AI. First, you review the AI's response with skepticism. Eventually, a lot of people become overwhelmed with AI fatigue and just accept whatever the LLM generates, whether it is an article, an email, a software module. I see it every day in my inbox, in arXiv papers that have clear signs of AI output, in code that is awfully written. People start trusting the AI for everything and stop thinking. It remains to be seen what the long-term effect of this laziness will be. But it surely won't make us smarter.

@bendee983 @karpathy rightly says that while learning, the primary feeling should be that of effort. He said it for YouTube content, but the point still stands. Taking shortcuts is suboptimal for learning.

@CodingComputing @karpathy You only learn through effort, sweat, and pain. No shortcuts there.