People often talk about the productivity gains that comes from LLMs, and it would be disingenuous of me to dismiss these. It’s true. You can be productive with an LLM-assisted workflow, but that same workflow could also be making you dumber. There’s a reason behind why I say this. Over time, you develop a reliance on LLM tools. This is to the point where is starts to become hard for you to work without one. I got into software engineering because I love building things and figuring out how stuff...