I see the opposite effect with AI: I quickly find some error that it has made, because it always makes errors in my field, and that keeps me from disengaging with the problem, because it helps define what can be wrong. I mainly use AI like I used to use my blog, for writing out my ideas in prose that I think is comprehensible and organized. Neither AI nor my old blog ever solved a problem for me, but they help me figure out how to talk about problems. I'll solve them on my own, but being able to describe a problem well is an important step in that.
I think that's still in line with what I mean. Letting the AI solve the problem doesn't work, but I've had several times that simply trying to explain the problem to the AI helped me solve it. Sometimes it's not an interactive encyclopedia, but an interactive rubber duck. That works too.
Don't outsource the thinking to the AI, is what I mean. Don't trust it, but use it to talk to, to shape your thoughts, and to provide information and even ideas. But not the solution, because that has never worked for me for any non-trivial problem.
