“It's making me dumber for sure,” the fintech software developer told me. “It's like when we got cellphones and stopped remembering phone numbers, but it's grown to me mentally outsourcing ‘thinking’ in general. I feel my critical thinking and ability to sit and reason about a problem or a design has degraded because the all-knowing-dalai-llama is just a question away from giving me his take. And supposedly I tell myself ill just use it for inspiration but it ends up being my only thought. It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.”
https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/
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@tante I thank for everyone affected's sacrifice that makes me more hireable. I didn't ask for it, but I'll take it.
@tante it's almost as if ANY creative job is only really worthwhile if people have spent time and energy on working out what the problem is, and then working out a way of implementing it, and learning from their mistakes (which is one thing LLMs never do).
@tante This is just what a programmer friend told me the other day
@tante @davidgerard Joseph Cox, one of the 404 folk, is on the fediverse and is worth following, @josephcox
@tante turn yourself into an lgtm machine pressing accept and fantasising about a manual labouring job instead
@davidgerard I dream about just working with wood daily. You becoming a carpenter or something.
@tante @davidgerard wood? where do you get the wood though? And who can pay for real wood in this economy… I had this thought lately and realised we're gearing toward a society where we go back to "working trades for the extra rich" (which is… already the case if you're working in software in one way or another)
@tante @davidgerard electricity s what i think i would go learn today....
@tante careful, i achieved the dream of become a youtube influencer
@tante I'm about to quit tech and become a full time home grower doing some music on the side as an occupation for the brain. @davidgerard
@davidgerard I want the challenge, the iteration, the growth, the development, the understandable and functional and fun end result. Flow state activities. Not... This.
