Doing my thinking

“I’m outsourcing my thinking and getting dumber”

The point of working with an AI is to extend your thinking, not to stop doing it. These techniques keep you in the reasoning loop while still getting the leverage. The research calls the cost of skipping this cognitive debt — the studies, and the counters.

Which version of it is yours?

• Rephrase Before Responding — the answer fits your words but misses your point, and you only notice three paragraphs in
• Self-Ask Before Delegating — you pasted the problem before reading it, and now you can’t judge the answer that came back