The Scam Called “You Don't Have to Remember Anything”

If you can’t produce a comprehensive answer with confidence and on the whim the second you read the question, you don’t have the sufficient background knowledge.
“I just ask ChatGPT for that, too!”, the AI generation might ask. Ok, and then what? How can you assess the answers to those three questions (which represent only a fraction of needed knowledge!)? What is going wrong? You are taking on an impossible task, because you can’t use enough of your brain for your cognitive operations.

As I use Claude Code more, I have a deeper appreciation for the time I spent learning R and code without it between 2019-2022. I know those things super well because of the time spent struggling with them. Things are easier now but maybe only on the surface. You can’t know what you don’t know, and having a rubber duck affirm your every belief with sycophancy that is built in, I think it is better in the long run for me to minimize the percentage of code generated and that which is written. I need to remember.