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The phrase you may be searching for is 'informed consumer'.

The world is full of tools that experts use because they understand what the tool is doing, and why this is a good thing... most of the time.

Having the tool is a poor substitute for the knowledge that led you to use the tool instead of doing it by hand. There are times where you would not do a thing by hand and so you don't ask the tool to do it, and there are times you ask the tool to do something you would never do by hand.



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