and here is a direct link to the pdf without all the rigamarole:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

Now that it can be outsourced,we will slowly lose this ability that we barely had.

Regardless, confidence in oneself is hardly measured, self report is likely as good as it gets.

Everyone I know who is working closely with LLMs is doing some of the most acute critical thinking of their lives these days.

I'm very skeptical of these kinds of takes; I'm reminded that Socrates railed against books on the basis that they were going to rot the brains of the youth.