The Era of Shallow Thinking
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | The Era of Shallow Thinking |
| Author(s) | David de Hilster |
| Published in | NLU Global |
| Date | 2025-07-29 |
| Subject area | Artificial Intelligence |
| Topics | artificial intelligence, large language models |
Read online | Read the full article |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"The Era of Shallow Thinking" is an article by David de Hilster published on 29 July 2025 on NLU Global.
De Hilster likens large language models to the summary books that let a reader take the main points of a field's important works without reading any of them. Meetings, documents and subjects are summarised so that no one need attend, think or interact; an article needing knowledge of a subject can be prompted into existence rather than studied for. His concern is not the tools themselves but what he sees as the consequence — an era of shallow thinking that keeps computer science from more profound work.