[lukasego]

LLMs should be used to REFLECT cognitive states while writing, and not for generating text. Reflecting thought patterns would be a mode where the writer deepens their understanding when writing essays, and gains better decision-making as well as coherence, as the LLM assesses and suggests where thinking could be refined. That will help against the accumulation of cognitive debt and increase cognitive width and depth.

Cogilo (https://cogilo.me/) was built for this purpose in the last weeks. This paper comes at a very welcome time. Cogilo is a Google Docs add-on (https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/cogilo/31975274...) that sees thinking patterns in essays. It operates on a semantic level and judges and tries to reveal the writer's cognitive state and thinking present in the text - to themselves, hence making the writer deepen their thinking and essay.

Ultimately, I think that in 300 years, upon looking back at the effect and power that AI had on humanity, we will see that it was built by us, and existed, to reflect human intelligence. I think that's where the power of LLMs will be big for us.