#aibrainrot — Public Fediverse posts
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Gestern: KI generierte Hausaufgaben erzeugen Brain Rot
Heute: KI generierte Professoren unterrichten Business
Was kann da schon schief gehen?
Wir könnten das gesamte Management durch Bots ersetzen. Und die Regierung.
Böse Zungen behaupten, das letzter wäre schon geschehen. Vielleicht das Empathie Modul nachrüsten?
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1982 TRON prescience:
“Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.” — Walter
2026 students:
“How do you know an assignment is AI proof? Because when it is, students cannot do it.”
* https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/1vkw6by/how_do_you_know_an_assignment_is_ai_proof_because/
“I assign a profile essay. Have for 30 years. Student interviews a person, records it, writes a paper based off the recording. Citations are timestamps. Should be pretty easy. Has been easy pre-AI. Now, students cannot do it.”
Snippet from professor/student dialog:
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Prof: ”Start with what you found interesting.”
Student: ”How do I know if something’s interesting?”
Prof: ”You’re asking me how you find something interesting?”
Student: ”Yeah.”
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Chatbots / LLMs are not just "the latest tools" like using a calculator instead of doing arithmetic yourself.
Students are being robbed of curiosity, learning to discover and notice novelty, how to “find something interesting.”
This isn't cognitive enhancement, this is a tool causing brain rot (loss of curiosity), even a developmental disability. Unclear if it is reversible.
TRON quote citation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/quotes/?item=qt0406255
#TRON #TRON1982 #AIproof #interesting #chatBot #chatBots #LLM #LLMs #AI #brainRot #AIbrainRot #disability #Blaugust #Blaugust2026 -
“We're being told to use AI agents for broad changes across our codebase. There's no way to evaluate whether that much code is well-written or secure—especially when hundreds of other programmers in the company are doing the same” https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/ #aibrainrot #ai #ki #developer #cicd
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Software #Developers Say #AI Is Rotting Their Brains
by Emanuel Maiberg, May 13, 2026
Excerpt: "The developers I talked to found AI useful for some tasks. Several developers said that it was good for experimentation, allowing them to quickly prototype an idea or to implement something in a domain they’re unfamiliar with. One developer said it was a good information interface. Specifically, he said, the AI helped him find where on the server a certain request is handled, summarize logs, or find documentation related to code changes.
"The problem all the developers I talked to agreed on is that the more they relied on AI to code, the more the skills they’ve honed for years deteriorated. This is by now a well studied phenomenon sometimes referred to as '#CognitiveDebt' or '#CognitiveAtrophy.' The idea is that people who use AI to automate certain parts of their job lose the ability to do those tasks well, therefore #DeSkilling themselves." 'I had some issues where I forgot how to implement a Laravel API and it scared the shit out of me. I went to university for this, I've been a software engineer for many years now and it feels like I am back before I ever wrote a single line of code,' the software developer at a small web design firm told me.
" '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.'
" 'When I was using it for code generation, I found myself having a lot of trouble building and maintaining a #MentalModel of the code I was working with,' the software engineer at the FAANG told me. 'Another aspect is that I joined late last year and [the company’s] codebase is massive. As a new hire, part of my job is to learn how to navigate the codebase and use the established conventions, but I think the AI push really hampered my ability to do that. '"
Read more:
https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2vjJm#AISucks #DumbingUsDown #BrainRot #AIBrainRot #MentalMaps #CriticalThinkingSkills #UseYourBrain #UseItOrLoseIt
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#RonnyChieng : Is #AI making uni studes dumber?
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AI has now written 400 trillion words—yet somehow still thinks "Let's dive in 🚀" is a good opener.
Congrats to everyone training models on vibes and LinkedIn captions. We truly are building the future. 🤖💡 #AIBrainRot
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New Cornell study: “Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioural levels.” — what’s the betting that your ability to code is eroded by AI use as well?
I mainly use LLMs as a kind of interactive documentation, and never for producing code. That’s mainly because even tools such as Claude Code have coding habits I despise. But keeping my coding brain sharp seems like another good reason to be cautious.
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For reasons I don't want to get into I've been researching business process automation stuff and boy howdy has the #AIBrainRot taken over the marketing departments there.
Let me just link to one slide of that 2014 presentation I talked about yesterday:
https://speakerdeck.com/halfbyte/decentralize-all-the-things-eurucamp-2014?slide=12