All of these articles as they come up discuss one aspect of the de-skillification process, that people no longer practice a skill, but I recently (some minutes ago) realized there is also another thing driving de-skillification

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162170

and that is as LLMs become more skilled and able to impersonate humans, humans start to think demonstrations of skill are the symptoms of being an LLM, thus in order to avoid being called an LLM people must decrease their skills on their own.

This has been observed by others, where people will throw in deliberate misspellings that LLMs would not make to demonstrate humanity.

It is not certain how people think writing less competently than the LLMs will lead to an eventual human triumph.

I think the point mentioned in the Substack was spot on, especially the example of calculator. Just as calculators did not eliminate our ability to understand math but helped us work more efficiently, AI will not take away our basic skills if we focus on proper understanding. Communication and critical thinking should be given more priority than simply relying on knowledge from books and tools