# Thoughts on thinking • Dustin Curtis

Source: https://dcurt.is/thinking
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Thoughts-on-thinking-Dustin-Curtis?index=0x6828b44af551476488bdff717edb698ebf01fd7289025f8a9a10c89e510cda9e26b3165b
Submitted by cerv1.eth on 2025-05-17 UTC, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

## Summary

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.

## Comments

**tim**: mhh, yeah probably I agree to a degree. I don‘t write big strategic pieces anymore that would improve my thinking. I mostly prompt until my improvements diminish.