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Climb before the helicopter

Think first. Then let AI help.

SPWe reviewed the research on it.Ideas

Hand-drawn diagram of framework 285, Climb before the helicopter: Think first. Then let AI help.
Framework 285 · in one look
How to use it

To learn: try it yourself first (the translation, the program, the plan), then ask the AI to check and stretch it. To build: let AI do the lifting, never the thinking you're supposed to grow from.

How sure we are

S Evidence: strong. Large trials or many studies, pointing the same way.

P Evidence: promising. Good studies, but small or few. Use it and keep checking.

Sources

The generation effect (Slamecka & Graf 1978; Bertsch et al. 2007) · lower engagement and recall when writing with an AI (Kosmyna et al. 2025, MIT preprint, small sample, 🟡) · Greene and Hofstadter (🟠).

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