they answered the question

I don’t think that prompting, in its various forms, encourages and supports the same exact thinking as writing, in its various forms, but we would be remiss not to recognize that significant thinking can and does take place in interacting with (and through) computational devices via UIs in different ways (across time). (The theme reminds me also of the old critique of written language itself—as relayed in Plato’s dialogues—. Such critiques were, also, both not entirely wrong and yet also very ungracious and conservative? (And it reminds me that literacy itself—reading and writing—is a technology incredibly unequally distributed, with massive implications.))