I'd argue that while you might be gaining something here (time) you could also losing something and that is expertise.

If you aren't reading the documentation yourself, then you aren't absorbing things that could be valuable later (even though they might not be relevant to the particular task you are doing now) and are therefore "stupider" at least by that definition.

All the time I'm involved in conversations where it is useful to have information in my head to either
- immediately answer a question (and avoid a follow up meeting), or
- prevent time being wasted on some course of action that isn't viable, or
- to suggest a neat solution I am aware of
all because of some detail I have read that hasn't previously mattered.

Of course, perhaps you are reading the documentation first, then pointing the AI at the relevant bits so it can complete some task and then reviewing the output for sanity, in which case I think you probably aren't losing out.

In the real world though I am seeing more and more information coming my way where it is pretty obvious that the person presenting it hasn't actually done their homework and doesn't really understand what they are proposing or working with.

You're less than a couple of years away from being in a Russian oligarchy.

You're optimistic, I was thinking more like North Korea....

I have probably read something they published in the last decade, but I just looked at their website

I do love posts that just start off, "I, an ignoramus, think...."

I don't mind articles mentioning AI when it's relevant but using that generic term over and over again without mentioning which specific tool just smacks of a writer more interested in hitting buzzwords than conveying information.

From the article published in Cell it seems to be Alphafold and the structure it reveals seems vital to being able understand how PHGDH could be interacting biologically and therefore be a critical part of the discovery, so a shame the uscd.edu article doesn't mention it by name.

Long term, they will pay the 500% tariff because this tariff level is not enough to induce American manufacturers to compete with the Chinese on low margin products.

I am not sure that is quite true, there will definitely be a threshold where it would become more than viable for American manufacturers to compete.

However, the investment involved is only going to be made in an environment where there is some predictability. If anyone believed that the tariffs would stay at that high level for years then they might invest, but no one in their right mind would believe these tariffs will stay the same next week, let alone past the end of the Trump presidency.

Did you actually see the chart of tariffs that every other country had in place before any of this started.

Would you like to buy a bridge?

If you don't understand the math behind unsecured debt, you shouldn't call yourself a nerd.

The key bit of financial ignorance here is not understanding that credit cards are unsecured loans.

Other forms of credit have lower interest rates because the risk of default is mitigated by the ability to seize and sell an asset used to guarantee.

Being unable to pay your bills on time (or at all) increases how much you pay for all forms of credit.

Been there and done that. The spouse was once saddled with an EV as a rental because all the regular cars were already taken.

The experience was so horrible that there is zero chance of us ever getting an EV.

You can probably find the space to hang a 85" TV even if you have an apartment the size of a shoe box.

DEI is just Jim Crow turned around so that the perpetrator switches place with the victim.

Nuclear can generate power reliably regardless of the weather or time of day. Nuclear or coal will be picking up the slack when the sun isn't out.

Solar panels also degrade in high heat like any other type of electronics.

amid efforts by the Trump administration to grant Moscow concessions to end the war in Ukraine

Even Trump isn't such a bad negotiator that he'd be handing over the concessions before the deal is made.
Clearly the West Wing's full title is now the "West Wing of the Kremlin"?

Anyone want a 4 digit UID? Make me an offer. :)