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Your objections to LLM-assisted writing has always been more aesthetic than otherwise. I have no argument that can change your mind about that, and I've tried. But at least we are in line about the pragmatic things.
AI is incredibly useful. And more so every damn day. If Terence Tao is increasingly reliant on it, I am impressed by how some of our forum denizens can find little utility for it in their lives. Good for them, I'm sure they're saving money on a paid plan.
Do you mean "reliant" in the sense of "having or showing dependence" or in the sense of "confident; trustful"?
The latter.
Ok, that is by far the more reasonable option, even if I find it less natural as a matter of language.
It is, of course, difficult to strictly evaluate the extent to which a third party is "increasing" in a sense of reliance/confidence/trust. That said, I would note that a couple days ago I referred to this recent blog post by Tao, where he presented some criteria that he says he uses to guide his usage. I don't necessarily agree with them all, but I do get the sense that he maintains a distrust of them, even while trying to get as much value out of them as possible. In the comments on that blog post, he re-endorses his comments on using "AI on the red team" from this paper, which also reads to me as having a sense of distrust and trying to describe ways of working with the thing that he has a sense of distrust in, while leveraging its strengths.
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