As technology gets more impressive, we internalize less knowledge ourselves.

There is a "plato" story on how he laments the invention of writing because now people don't need to memorize speeches and stuff.

I think there is a level of balance. Writing gave us enough efficiencies that the learned laziness made us overall more effective.

The internet in 2011 made us a bit less effective. I am not gonna lie; I spent a lot more time being able to get resources, whereas I would have to struggle on my own to solve a problem. You internalize one more than the other, but is it worth the additional time every time?

I worry about current students learning through LLMs just like I would worry about a student in 2012 graduating in physics when such a student had constant access to wolfram alpha.