#thinking

One of Descartes’ foundational contributions to Philosophy is cogito, ergo sum which translates to “I think, therefore I am”.

LLMs are fascinating and helps you learn and understand things a little more by sort of pointing you at the right direction if you know what you’re looking for. In a world where we’re optimizing for speed and max throughput where Software Engineers are purely acting as a conduit between an LLM and their systems and stop thinking, are we losing a part of our humanity in the process?