AI and the externalization trap

Koshy John&rsquo;s recent article, &ldquo;A.I. Should Elevate Your Thinking, Not Replace It,&rdquo; made the Hacker News front page and resonated with a lot of engineers. The core thesis is right: AI is splitting the profession into people who use it to think better and people who use it to avoid thinking. I agree with the analogies and the warnings about simulated competence. But John writes from…