Flutterby™! : degredation in systemic comprehension

Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social has a thread about "...that "chatgpt rots your brain" paper", which I'm taking to mean Your Brain on ChatGPT:... mentioned here and here

I am asking myself: what studies would *I* design to evaluate people's usage of LLMs in keeping with learning science and without neurohype?

And the ensuing thread is interesting, but also shows the issues with trying to quantify thinking about systems that programming as a discipline has long had.

But I think some of the notion of cognitive offloading explored in the thread is interesting as we explore if LLMs are analogous to calculators? Card files? Or slot machines?