"We’ve had generations of evolution hardwired into us, social practices, culture hundreds of millennia old. An AI has whatever data you’ve given it. The only reason it knows anything is right or wrong is because it’s been told it’s right or wrong. It has no real morals, no real wealth of knowledge to draw upon. It has true or false gates that branch out in a maze of pathways, and if something is undefined, it’ll freeze, or act in such a way that no one can really expect. Um, well, sorry about that rant, this alcohol is actually starting to get to me a bit.”

“Um, it’s fine, it’s interesting to hear your opinion,” Alan said, backing up a bit.

“Okay, well, moving on, about your overall performance, I’m quite impressed, but stop depending on your AI. Quite frankly, your actions will hinder your growth. As you should’ve seen in your AI’s abilities, it has its own Jack of All Trades ability, which can basically show it how to perform any skill or ability that it has data for. This means that if you don’t train in a skill, you’ll simply forget it, and it’ll return to your AI’s skills rather than your own.”

Alan looked and saw that this was true. The knife fighting ability he nearly forgot about had been absorbed into this skill. The list of skills within Eve's skill went on and on, looking like a Dungeon and Dragons manual for all available skills.

“Now, while being able to use every skill is quite useful, you will never develop a proficiency at the skill, never perform at an Advanced or Master level with the skill unless you truly learn the skill on your own. Why? Because by using this skill you are basically following an outline without ever learning why the motion or action you are performing is the correct one.

"You’ll never understand the nuances of dueling or piloting, for example. You might not believe me, but Admiral Thrag, is one of the most brilliant, genius pilots I’ve ever met. Oh, and he isn’t acting, his personality is unfortunately just as it appears to be. If you confront him about it he’ll be quite offended. He married his ship’s AI.

"Anyway, to become a force to be reckoned with, you’ll need to train in skills and not just have your AI feed you the information. If you want to be a mediocre player, fine, continue to depend on your AI to such an extent, but you’ll never be able to handle rank A let alone rank S threats. Of course, your AI will be an immense help with your training, at least up to a certain point, but AIs are only able to master most skills to a proficiency two ranks below their Computing Ability, thus in Eve’s case most of the skills are at an E or F rank. Although, as I see you’ve discovered, they can help you quite a bit with various abilities, like sniping or hacking, so you should be able to get a high proficiency easily in some subset of abilities dependent on calculation.