What's this about?
The author says drafting forces people to discover what they think, while AI is useful for research and asking critical questions after a human draft.
What exactly is cognitive offloading?
It means handing a mental step to a tool. Spellcheck offloads mechanics; asking a model to choose the argument may offload the reasoning the document was meant to develop.
What's the community saying?
HN 138 points, 82 comments at fetch time.
- Some treat AI as a word processor that enables more revision, not less thought.
- Others reject spending human attention on machine-generated personal messages.
- Translation and coding expose the same boundary between assistance and authorship.