Thinking is a commodity
I am undecided on how I feel about LLMs (especially reasoning models). I have always been careful about my thoughts and decision making. I like to do things most people label as "boring" work, like DYOR (Doing Your Own Research) and RTFM (Reading the Fucking Manual).
My personal experience has been that doing the "boring" work is essential to think clearly. It is what solidifies the concepts & strengthens the fundamentals. Good decision making requires clear thoughts & strong fundamentals.
But given that now LLMs have done the boring work (pretraining) and can also do reasoning, anyone using LLMs is no longer thinking. And because everyone is using LLMs, everyone is basically thinking the same. The lack of diversity in thinking bothers me a lot.
When I look at a PR (pull request) with full of AI generated code, I don't know how to feel about it. Is it frustrating that the PR author has not done the thinking or does it really matter if the code works?
LLM thinking comes at a price, and it can think deeply if you pay more. If you do the "boring" work yourself, you fall behind. Does money matter now more than ever? Food for thought (no pun intended)