Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
And ever since I got a forklift my arm strength has gone down.
You use a forklift to do things you physically can’t do. This is a bad analogy. Even if you never used a forklift at all you’d still likely not have the muscle capacity to lift 500+ lbs pallets all day. You certainly couldn’t just lift a tonne.
And you wouldn’t use a forklift to increase your muscle tone, or build muscle.
I physically can’t refactor a codebase in 15 minutes.
Are we going to pay to go to a mental gymnasium where we complete coding and critical reasoning tasks manually to stave off the atrophy?
I mean, people already do this. Lots of folks do crosswords or sudoku or other puzzles to keep their mind sharp. It’s pretty commonly recommended by doctors I think.
Hah. Leetcode becomes more popular among the employed. Software developers have AI agents run some big tasks while they get some Leetcode time in. Lol
It’s a good thing AI doesn’t rely on competent people for training its input and double-checking its output, because otherwise this would be very bad news.
Hell, even before AI there were signs. Half the mechanics in our shop can’t diagnose shit unless there’s an error code shown when they plug in the computer.
It’s No Child Left Behind from Lil Bush…
They just stopped teaching critical thinking and empathy decades ago. People in their 30s and under were never taught critical thinking.
Even with video games, they grew up where a 5 second pause meant googling a walkthrough video. The Water Temple would have broken them.
I can’t figure out what’s wrong. Every time I print a document, it says it prints, but I just get out a piece of white paper. It was getting lighter and lighter and lighter, and now it’s just gone entirely.
Lol
Ah, no, see if you demonstrate any capacity for troubleshooting printers you fail the intelligence test.
The intro of Idiocracy on overdrive. Well done.
What?
Walley if anything, but I hate how fucking no one understands Idiocracy but other idiot always upvote any comment containing it.
I’ve watched thst movie at least 4 times and can pretty much cite it.
The beginning shows the downfall of humanity due to the wrong people reproducing, true. That’s not exactly to what’s going on here. Still it’s a parallel.
Were voluntarily externalizing and hence losing knowledge.
So whats your issue. That it’s not identical? Gatekeeping the understanding of Idiocracy, man. Get a grip.
Why the fuck would anyone answer your questions when you ask them like that?
Why wouldn’t the other person just give up on helping you understand it?
Like, you memorized some quotes to a movie you didn’t understand, congrats bro, that’s what a fucking chatbot can do. That’s the level you’re on, but you undoubtedly think of yourself as Not Sure.
CAVOK, that’s a bold claim about AI ‘ruining our skills,’ especially for physicians and software engineers. I wonder if it’s less about skill degradation and more about skill evolution? For instance, I’ve seen teams use AI not to replace coding, but to accelerate boilerplate generation, freeing engineers for more complex architectural work. It’s a tool, much like a calculator didn’t ruin math skills but changed what ‘doing math’ meant. I work with customer acquisition myself, and we actually leverage AI agents to handle repetitive tasks, which lets our human team focus on strategic relationship building – if you’re curious how we do that without dumbing down the human role, there’s more detail at https://cxgo.ai/l/De4x0OA.
We don’t let people use calculators until they reach a certain level of maths proficiency without one. Also, we don’t let calculators decide what sums to do.
When software developers are using AI to assist them, that’s different than someone vibe coding something. It didn’t sound like that commenter was promoting vibe coding.
Definitely degradation. Deskilling is a well-established phenomenon.
It’s not me making the claim, I just posted the link.
I’m shocked that a person who is touting AI so hard missed a pretty basic context clue. Maybe those basic tasks that they are using AI to skip could have helped them in this situation.
Yeah, but they can’t understand that because they use AI heavily…
You didn’t read the article or choose whether to post it?
Here’s an AI comment and an AI link, showing you I use AI heavily. Since I can’t understand this, it means you’re wrong, otherwise it would mean you’re right and the AI brainrot is already why I can’t understand it. And my chatbot says I’m stunning and brave!
