What's this about?
LlamaIndex founder Jerry Liu says heavy AI-assisted writing made him "progressively dumber at writing"; his fix is to manually re-type his own distilled bullet points after reading LLM output, forcing his brain to do the compression.
What exactly is the concern?
Writing isn't just output — it's how thinking gets sharpened. Delegate the writing and you skip the thinking. His workaround keeps the AI for breadth but reserves the final distillation step for the human.
Why is it worth noting?
A builder of AI tools publicly flagging a cognitive cost, matching emerging research on AI and skill atrophy — and offering a concrete practice, not just a lament.