"You let the AI do the landscaping design for you and list the supplies and where to buy them. You didn't bother to get any idea of how many possibilities there might have been for design options, materials to use, plants you could have used."
As for the design, that is not what I said I did, and I didn't. It helped us to visualize design options --- my design options, with images based on my detailed instructions. For example, what would it look like with white trellis, or red, or brown? My wife wanted to see what it would look like before I started any work.
For the plants, I could have spent hours researching the best plants for our location, in a very shady spot, but we gave very specific instructions, for example, we wanted a large fern and something evergreen with flowers, and it suggested options. Can you give one reason why I would spend days do that if I have technology to do do it in an hour? A cognitive burden would be to refuse to understand the usefulness of technology. It would be like using an abacus because one won't discover the benefit in using a calculator.
BTW, I had a career in design, working for a large corporation in Europe. Yes, it saved time using AI. Is that because I am lazy or unwilling to learn? With the time I saved, I am able to do the work myself. Can you see no benefit in that?
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