OpenAI researcher willdepue vents that Claude is making him dumber
willdepue · x · 2026-11-06
willdepue — OpenAI researcher and early Cognition member — posts a one-liner vent: "is anyone else's claude making them retarded," complaining that using Claude is eroding his own thinking. A crude quip, but from a frontier-lab researcher, feeding into the ongoing debate about AI dependence and cognitive offloading.
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