Is AI ruining my brain?

I am an AI skeptic/hater/slow adopter, due to a combination of concerns about the ethics and environmental impact of AI and the fact that I like doing things myself. I knit my own socks, I built a swing for my porch this summer, and every Thanksgiving I make pies from scratch — even the crust (do you like my handmade em dash?). I truly enjoy the work of writing code, so I have been hesitant to involve AI in my workflow. But recently, I’ve been working on a project where the team uses a lot of...