I feel the same way, and yet I would still say I feel AI usage atrophying my thinking skills. I feel less tempted to use it to shortcut whole files, but even just using it to speed up looking up and carefully reading docs, tinkering with a library to understand it when docs are inadequate, working out the tradeoffs for design decisions... These sound less objectionable and more like simplr speedups, but when I _do_ need to do it (because the agent refuses to do it properly) I can feel the friction so much more keenly. Whether that's just me losing the habit of those specific tasks, or a generalised loss of g-factor, I don't know.