I have unfortunately found myself doing stuff like this too, although maybe not as egregious.
I think part of the problem is that our brains are wired to look for the path of least resistance, and so shoving everything into an LLM prompt becomes an easy escape hatch. I'm trying to combat this myself, but finding it not trivial, to be honest. All these tools are kind of just making me lazier week over week.
There’s some kind of new failure mode here. People seem to determine a tool’s applicability for a task by whether its interface allows for their request to be entered. An open ended natural language input field lets people enter any request, regardless of the underlying tool’s suitability.
This is a guy with 10+ years experience as a dev. It was a watershed moment for me, many people really have stopped thinking for themselves.
The way humans are depicted in Wall-E springs to mind as being quite prescient, it wasn't meant to be a doco