>but I strongly disagree that it is a bad thing for individuals to sometimes save time and sometimes get better results you shouldn't really use tools to save

>but I strongly disagree that it is a bad thing for individuals to sometimes save time and sometimes get better results you shouldn't really use tools to save time or 'sometimes' get better results, because that's an indication of a sort of laziness. When you use powerful tools you need to understand exactly in what way they save you time or effort, what their failure modes are, otherwise they become pathways for exploitation. The recent backdoor is a good example of this. People pile automation and tool chains in software on top of each other but don't bother to actually verify what comes through them, and so rather than leverage for them they became leverage for someone else. If you use LLMs to process information faster but someone feeds you garbage you're now the fastest consumer of garbage. There's nothing worse than a gullible user with a powerful tool. And given that the general attitude we have nowadays is that tools are a sort of thing that allow you to turn your brain off, rather than understanding that you need to be smarter and more critical and more alert the more tools you use, it's very reasonable to be extremely conservative about adopting new tools.