Calculators didn’t make people better at math — they made math vanish from the average mind.
Spellcheck didn’t improve spelling — it bred autocorrect addicts.
And now Cluely doesn’t make people smarter — it makes them dependent.
You’re not building intelligence.
You’re building the illusion of intelligence, draped over atrophied minds too distracted to notice their muscles no longer move.
You say we won’t need to memorize, write, or think —
but who understands what they’ve never wrestled with?
A prompt is not a thought.
An answer is not an idea.
And being "right" in real time is not the same as knowing why.
If the future belongs to the one who asks the best question,
then God help us if no one remembers how to wonder without help.
Seems hilariously easy to detect tho. Just like in live conversation, when someone appears to be bullshitting their way through it... You casually drop some plausible nonsense and the con artist will show their hand by improvising on the plausibility instead of calling it out.
There was debate on the team back in ~2009 over changing the query params -- when you estimate how much bandwidth and disk is consumed per day at the scale of Analytics, just for the difference of a character or two on a handful of query params -- even well over a decade ago, it really was astounding.
The migration would never be total, though, because more than a few users had copied the analytics script to their CDN or were in some way depending on a local fork of it. Some backwards compatibility would need to be maintained, perhaps for as long as the product exists. For this and other reasons, changing the params (and supporting both, indefinitely) wasn't pursued.
