Oh no, undoubtedly, you’re 100% right. I’m just pointing out there’s precedent.

I’m not surprised. When writing was invented, the affected societies saw a decline in brain volume as memory was outsourced to some extent to written records; now, we’ll see a reduction in brain volume as we outsource thinking to AI.

Bottle gourds are still eaten pretty regularly in India, and I suspect, other parts of the world too.

Yep, I just checked Wikipedia, and yes, tons of people around the world still eat it.

Wouldn’t “inheritance” be a better answer for the software engineer?

There’s a LLE episode about it:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/lets-learn-everything/id1587816694?i=1000669246734