Using LLM's isn't externalizing or outsourcing thinking. LLM's aren't performing that. People doing this are in fact substituting thinking with a process, the

Using LLM's isn't externalizing or outsourcing thinking. LLM's aren't performing that. People doing this are in fact substituting thinking with a process, the output of which masquerades as thoughts after a fashion, but are in fact basically word cloud probability based pattern matching. Sure, the point that superior tool use is a valid job skill makes some sense, but conceding your agency and higher reasoning to a machine which possesses none of these is to my mind not going to be beneficial to a business in the long run.