Thoughts on thinking • Dustin Curtis

Dustin Curtis writes that using AI has weakened his own thinking, making his original work feel pointless and leaving him less inclined to share ideas. He says that before AI he wrote prolifically, refining ideas over time, and that writing was how he formed opinions and worked through gaps in his arguments. He now feels that AI-generated finished thoughts give him knowledge of facts but not real intellectual growth, and he describes his thinking as diminished, with his intuition, cleverness and rigor slipping. He concludes that the process of building ideas himself is what matters, and says he is still stuck.