25 yrs after my college education I was able to attend graduate classes thru a work program. I was taking the graduate physics classes for fun, as I could get out of work for a few hrs a week. Lucky for me, I had used the skills during much of my previous work time and had zero trouble keeping up, even with the long break.
So, the muscle memory was solid, at least for the classes that aligned to what areas I previously worked.
But, using something like chatGPT, I can spit out something pretty good, but don’t remember much and fear I lack a platform to advance an effort further as I soon lack the ability to correct the eventual errors that chatGPT returns and I have little muscle memory to build on.
Reading makes your writing better, listening makes your accent smoother. Nothing wrong with using ChatGPT for automating what you understand is a pain, just don’t automate what you do not understand yet, same as with any outsourcing. Not using it on a weekday would make me overspend time on searching in an inefficient way arguably making me dumber, because AI works better when you give a precise question and explain the precise context — that helps with human interaction in chats as well.
Or just tell ChatGPT not to spoon feed you and to make you think and work harder on things you want to learn.
We are not living in the world of Windows or Google anymore, where you have no input into what Windows and Google does.