Frontier Models Framed as Cognitive Dependence

Posts discuss a growing sense of dependence on frontier AI models, comparing access to them to an essential stimulant whose loss leaves people relying on stale intuition and vague judgment. A reply reframes this dependence more concretely: one of the strongest uses of LLMs is "enhanced self-interrogation," helping users extract scattered clues from their own minds and organize them into a structured map.

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