Comment by gramie

> And I realized that when I asked Claude for a bunch of ideas and then I selected the best one based on my experience, I was exercising that exact skill. I wasn't exercising the skill of coming up with the solution from scratch.

Makes me think of Japan, where young people learn to recognize kanji. They type the sound of a word into a computer, then choose the appropriate one.

When they have to write by hand, they often draw a blank (not only children, I had a university professor I knew temporarily forget the character for "police").

An article from 2012 said that 66% of Japanese surveyed believed that they were losing the ability to write kanji.