I’m Done Using AI. “It made me lazy. It made me stop caring. It made me a worse programmer. It made me depressed. Because I stopped doing the hard work, I stopped learning, I stopped growing, I stopped being the one making the software.”
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I have a hard time relating to things like this. My programming skills have improved more dramatically in the past 18 months than at any time in the past 20 years. I learn, interrogate, digest, expand, extrapolate more than ever before. I understand codebases much better, not less.
Steven Johnson has a good bit in the opening of this new Atlantic video about the whole cognitive offloading idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmtv78xVf0M
Cognitive uploading is right.
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