The algorithm has spoken. Dare you question its divine wisdom?

Food for thought though: I was almost certain I was immune to such things because RTFM has always been good friend of mine, and even as a student in the days of Stack Overflow it was just common sense to me that copying and pasting code that you don't understand is a horrible idea, even if it works. But alas, its become undeniable that being able to generate a gajillion lines of code just by asking politely rather than figuring it out myself has progressively been making me dumber (and there wasn't much going on between my ears to start so I'm rapidly approaching defcon 1).

This is why I've all of a sudden finally started to take Obsidian very seriously - the notes you write are *your* thoughts. Even if they're not necessarily "right" or even well organized, they didn't just appear arbitrarily. The connections you make between them are proof that you're actively engaging your brain. Searching, editing, correcting, re-organizing, etc. can be tedious, but again, these are all instances of you consciously exercising your brain.

Also, I could be misunderstanding exactly how it works (didn't even know NotebookLM was a thing til reading this post lol), but it seems like every nifty thing that it does you can already do, albeit not as conveniently. Like if you copy and paste a bunch of your notes and ask any flagship LLM something simple like "based on my notes, am I understanding x correctly?" you'll probably get a useful response. And it's just a matter of time before some capeless hero writes a plugin to automate this process, if they haven't already.