Do AI tools reduce friction at the cost of deeper thinking?

I noticed a change in my use of AI tools. AI tools make it very easy to get answers and ideas. I can even get structured outputs from AI tools right away. Because AI tools are so easy to use I have caught myself moving forward without really thinking about things. Before I started using AI tools, when something was hard to do I had to think about the problem, for a time. This was frustrating. It also helped me understand things clearly. Now I am tempted to skip the part and just use the output from AI tools as a starting point. Sometimes I even use the output from AI tools as my answer.