AI is making me weaker, mentally...

Today, I tried learning about OAuth 2 and multi-tenant architecture. Usually I will use an LLM for it, but for some reason I thought, why not try doing it the old-school way: reading articles, documentation, and Stack Overflow. I couldn't. I simply couldn't read a 2-page article in one sitting. I couldn't focus, make sense of what's written, decode complex terms and diagrams, and gave up when I couldn't make sense of what I was reading for 10 minutes. I gave up midway, switched to watching YouTube, and wasted hours. I keep a technical journal and tried articulating what's happening. Here is a raw snippet from it: Test This: Try to implement caching WITHOUT AI: Can you? → Probably yes (after struggling 6 hours) With AI? → Yes (after struggling 1 hour) Difference: TIME, not ABILITY. About this part specifically, the issue is not with learning ability or time tradeoff per say, but rather endurance. When I use AI, I get answers in one place, I don't have to read tehnical articles, search m