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Yeah it 100% is going to make people dumber (if it hasn't already). Sometimes I'll get in a habit of having Chat GPT write my emails for me, and then when I try to write an email on my own it's like my brain already forgot how to do it. I honestly think it's incredibly dangerous for future generations especially. How will they learn how to think independently or critically if they're just depending on chat bots to answer the questions for them?
Honestly, I think that is a fair thing to be worried about and I don't think you are alone in feeling that way. I know several people who feel they are losing their skills because of how much they are relying on AI to do parts of their job. It's definitely important to keep those skills up to snuff without AI.
AI is still weak enough to help in a complex case. So you likely will face many times a need to rewrite all you need manually or at least concretize a hint to it. OTOH, automation of too routine writing is what I generally appreciate.
As long as you’re still thinking critically and reviewing what it suggests, I think you’re still learning. But yeah, going completely hands-off and relying blindly could definitely make skills fade.
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I use it as a way to enhance and optimize my day. I’ll have it condense what I already wrote, give me a trivia question for the day to ask my team. Build me a basic repo I can train my interns on with git
i think its fair to worry about it. but also i kind of think its not a value add to memorize things. as long as u are thoroughly reviewing the code it generates, and testing it with corner cases i think your good from a technical implementation perspective. if u think about it, a lota devs that become managers kind of go through the same thing where their coding becomes rusty because they have good devs underneath them. they end up just reviewing code, focusing on architecture/design, engaging stake holders/mngmt
Syntax is the least important part of designing software.
Depends on the extra effort you put in. Do calculators and spreadsheets make you dumb at math?
I think the dumbness people feel is they lose their intuition. Our intuition or comfort level influences how quickly we can guess an approximate correct answer. In math this might mean seeing 93-77 and knowing it's going to be something less than 20 but certainly not -500,000. In engineering this might mean knowing a dictionary look up is going to be a better choice than looping through a million records. You make less mistakes because you rule out silly ideas faster
I think the way to keep your intuition warm is to think about what was generated. Is the solution correct? How can I prove it is correct? Would I do it differently? Why would the machine suggest this answer? What are the consequences of side effects of moving forward? Can I debug this? Can I explain every line to my peers?
The natural consequence of this type of thinking is you tend to generate more at the small function level instead of at a broad project level.
lol oh the first world dilemmas