Thoughts on thinking
May 30, 2025Thoughts on thinking. Nice blog post on how the use of AI makes the author feel about his relationship to writing and understanding.
Intellectual rigor comes from the journey: the dead ends, the uncertainty, and the internal debate. Skip that, and you might still get the insight–but you’ll have lost the infrastructure for meaningful understanding. Learning by reading LLM output is cheap. Real exercise for your mind comes from building the output yourself.