I think AI is making me dumber and I have proof

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Summary

The author recounts a personal experience where their reasoning test scores dropped significantly after two years of daily AI tool usage, raising concerns about long-term cognitive trade-offs for short-term productivity gains.

okay so this is embarrassing to admit but here it is took a reasoning test in 2022, scored pretty well. Retook the same test last month out of curiosity, dropped significantly, like not a small difference. The only major change in my life is using AI tools daily for work and the worst part? i kind of knew something was off before the test. I noticed i couldn't sit with a problem anymore without immediately opening chatgpt, like my brain forgot how to be uncomfortable for even 5 minutes memory is worse. attention is worse, i feel slower in conversations. but my productivity at work has never been higher lol so what is actually happening here , are we trading long term cognitive health for short term output? Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me being paranoid ⊙⁠﹏⁠⊙ genuinely asking because i don't want to just accept this as normal (⁠｡⁠ŏ⁠﹏⁠ŏ⁠)
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