The analogy makes a lot of sense to me. Once you have an “easy button”, it’s hard to not use it. It’s sort of like when you’re at work and see the “quick workaround” effectively become the standard process.
I remember burning out on games because the cheats made them really fun in the short term, but afterward playing normally felt like agony.
Yeah, LLMs are like if you called the Nintendo hint line, and the person on the other end just made shit up.
The person on the other end might be making somewhat educated guesses, based on what they have heard people around talk.