Comment by j_w

Using map reading skills as a proxy for this is a bit of a strawman. People who use GPS habitually have worse navigational and spatial awareness skills.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62877-0

If you habitually use a calculator for all arithmetic, could the result not be similar? What if you reach to an LLM for all your coding, general research, etc.? These tools may vastly speed up some workflows, but your brain is a muscle.