It’s an education problem more than an execution problem— it is a tool OK to use AFTER you have learned to distinguish important elements and have a good base of knowledge to judge the output. This hold for my discipline as well.

April 03, 2026 - 12:24 UTC

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The learning however never ends - unless the person ends it by relying too much on LLMs. Everyone will define the moment of when they've learned "enough" individually of course, but I reckon on average they (will) think they've reached this point too early.
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Yes, spot on.
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I am also always a bit weary of de-skilling myself… like it’s happened with gps navigation for example. I can still follow a map, but l rely on it a lot! Which skills do l need to retain, which can l outsource? It may be a blessing l am older and it doesn’t matter as much anymore!
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Except the research increasingly shows that it degrades your skills the more you use it, so it's probably not okay that anyone use it (if they want to retain those skills).
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That’s why l am mindful of which skills l want to retain and which ones l don’t— for example l have always been terrible with small things like define all acronyms at first use and only the. So l don’t mind uploading and asking to fix that, then comparing file in word to track changes introduced
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This is why for years I’ve discouraged undergraduates (or discouraged their professors from encouraging them) from using Google Scholar in lieu of subscription databases. It takes experience to know how to differentiate scholarly articles from other content that ends up in your search results.
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Even more so now when people use AI to help them "write." Yesterday, I found a "review" paper that was absolute gibberish. Like someone searched for relevant articles and pasted their abstracts together, unedited. That's one (allegedly) "peer-reviewed" journal for my permanent ignore list.
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If signed in through the institution, google scholar helpfully adds a ‘find it @[institution]’ tag on all papers that have been curated by our librarians - it’s a great way to demonstrate quality variation to students and filter for reputable journals.
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In my field, we are lucky to have (free- tax payer subsidized) Pubmed- if not there, it’s not scholarship ; if it is there… well you still have to check the journal and overall quality, especially now with all predatory journals
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