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  1. 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:
    404media.co/software-developer

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/2vjJm

    #AISucks #DumbingUsDown #BrainRot #AIBrainRot #MentalMaps #CriticalThinkingSkills #UseYourBrain #UseItOrLoseIt

  2. 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:
    404media.co/software-developer

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/2vjJm

    #AISucks #DumbingUsDown #BrainRot #AIBrainRot #MentalMaps #CriticalThinkingSkills #UseYourBrain #UseItOrLoseIt

  3. 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:
    404media.co/software-developer

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/2vjJm

    #AISucks #DumbingUsDown #BrainRot #AIBrainRot #MentalMaps #CriticalThinkingSkills #UseYourBrain #UseItOrLoseIt

  4. 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:
    404media.co/software-developer

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/2vjJm

    #AISucks #DumbingUsDown #BrainRot #AIBrainRot #MentalMaps #CriticalThinkingSkills #UseYourBrain #UseItOrLoseIt

  5. 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:
    404media.co/software-developer

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/2vjJm

    #AISucks #DumbingUsDown #BrainRot #AIBrainRot #MentalMaps #CriticalThinkingSkills #UseYourBrain #UseItOrLoseIt

  6. @sarajw They also have trading cards, plastic loot-box figures, and soda drinks in various stores near me. 💀

    But I can't say anything. I bought Pogs as a kid.

    #ItalianBrainrot #Brainrot #Pogs

  7. If you thought that it couldn't get any worse than ,... I come bearing bad news. Check out this :

    : youtube.com/watch?v=LxmIIYj5FQE

    You didn't expect the to leave a revolutionary new uncorrupted, did you?

    Just get off the and create real-world . We can retrofit into it according to OUR needs. Oh, BTW! Keep the KIDS OFF OF IT! This isn't . This is literal !

  8. This is disingenuous. People have been using "brain rot" for decades now. The implication of irreversibility was always predicated on not doing a damn thing about it. It's exactly like a computer running badly written, useless or malicious software: induced cognitive damage doesn't require ruining the actual wetware like some drugs or physical/psychological trauma do, just using what you have in the wrong way.

    And I'm no killjoy: do whatever you want with your head and your life. But know the costs. You can actually train your headmeat to make life harder for yourself.

    newscientist.com/article/mg266

    #brainrot #SocialMedia #Journalism #Clickbait

  9. No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent

    newscientist.com/article/mg266

    Neuroscientist Dr Dean Burnett tackles a common, but unfair, claim about modern young people. For New Scientist magazine

    #Brains #BrainRot #Youth #GenZ

  10. @newsguyusa

    Aliens have been an ancient Republican trope about since forever

    Area 51 and all that, and "the government isn't telling you the whole truth!!!"

    Along with the 100,000 UN troops bivouaced in the woods of northern Minnesota, waiting for orders from the Trilateral Commission to sweep down into Washington DC and establish a One World Government

    Pure 1960s #BrainRot

    #Republicans #Psychotics #Delusional #Trump

  11. It's coming soon but I gotta take care of something else first...

    THIS:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_

    "Italian brainrot"

    "Italian brainrot is a series of Internet memes that emerged in early 2025 characterized by surrealist and absurd images of AI-generated creatures who are given pseudo-Italian names."

    gotcha!

    #Brainrot #ItalianBrainrot

  12. :blobcatgooglyshrug: Die Radikalität der Gelassenheit

    Kaum ist das Handy entsperrt, prasseln sie auf uns ein: Nachrichten, Meinungen, Bilder, Konflikte. Zwischen Schlagzeilen, Mitteilungen und algorithmisch kuratierten Ablenkungen verlieren wir leicht das Gefühl für das, was wirklich wichtig ist. Der Tag beginnt im Reizmodus – und nicht selten bleibt er dort.

    In solchen Momenten spüre ich, wie weit ich von dem entfernt bin, was ich eigentlich suche: einen ruhigen, klaren Blick – kurz: Gelassenheit. Doch was heisst das eigentlich? Und wie kann man sie finden?

    Meine Antwort darauf? Stoische Klarheit, kynischer Verzicht und epikureisches Masshalten. Gewürzt mit einer Prise wissenschaftlicher Evidenz.

    text.tchncs.de/gisiger/die-rad

    #Gelassenheit #Philosophie #Psychologie #MBSR #BrainRot #DoomScrolling

  13. :blobcatgooglyshrug: Die Radikalität der Gelassenheit

    Kaum ist das Handy entsperrt, prasseln sie auf uns ein: Nachrichten, Meinungen, Bilder, Konflikte. Zwischen Schlagzeilen, Mitteilungen und algorithmisch kuratierten Ablenkungen verlieren wir leicht das Gefühl für das, was wirklich wichtig ist. Der Tag beginnt im Reizmodus – und nicht selten bleibt er dort.

    In solchen Momenten spüre ich, wie weit ich von dem entfernt bin, was ich eigentlich suche: einen ruhigen, klaren Blick – kurz: Gelassenheit. Doch was heisst das eigentlich? Und wie kann man sie finden?

    Meine Antwort darauf? Stoische Klarheit, kynischer Verzicht und epikureisches Masshalten. Gewürzt mit einer Prise wissenschaftlicher Evidenz.

    text.tchncs.de/gisiger/die-rad

    #Gelassenheit #Philosophie #Psychologie #MBSR #BrainRot #DoomScrolling

  14. :blobcatgooglyshrug: Die Radikalität der Gelassenheit

    Kaum ist das Handy entsperrt, prasseln sie auf uns ein: Nachrichten, Meinungen, Bilder, Konflikte. Zwischen Schlagzeilen, Mitteilungen und algorithmisch kuratierten Ablenkungen verlieren wir leicht das Gefühl für das, was wirklich wichtig ist. Der Tag beginnt im Reizmodus – und nicht selten bleibt er dort.

    In solchen Momenten spüre ich, wie weit ich von dem entfernt bin, was ich eigentlich suche: einen ruhigen, klaren Blick – kurz: Gelassenheit. Doch was heisst das eigentlich? Und wie kann man sie finden?

    Meine Antwort darauf? Stoische Klarheit, kynischer Verzicht und epikureisches Masshalten. Gewürzt mit einer Prise wissenschaftlicher Evidenz.

    text.tchncs.de/gisiger/die-rad

    #Gelassenheit #Philosophie #Psychologie #MBSR #BrainRot #DoomScrolling

  15. :blobcatgooglyshrug: Die Radikalität der Gelassenheit

    Kaum ist das Handy entsperrt, prasseln sie auf uns ein: Nachrichten, Meinungen, Bilder, Konflikte. Zwischen Schlagzeilen, Mitteilungen und algorithmisch kuratierten Ablenkungen verlieren wir leicht das Gefühl für das, was wirklich wichtig ist. Der Tag beginnt im Reizmodus – und nicht selten bleibt er dort.

    In solchen Momenten spüre ich, wie weit ich von dem entfernt bin, was ich eigentlich suche: einen ruhigen, klaren Blick – kurz: Gelassenheit. Doch was heisst das eigentlich? Und wie kann man sie finden?

    Meine Antwort darauf? Stoische Klarheit, kynischer Verzicht und epikureisches Masshalten. Gewürzt mit einer Prise wissenschaftlicher Evidenz.

    text.tchncs.de/gisiger/die-rad

    #Gelassenheit #Philosophie #Psychologie #MBSR #BrainRot #DoomScrolling

  16. :blobcatgooglyshrug: Die Radikalität der Gelassenheit

    Kaum ist das Handy entsperrt, prasseln sie auf uns ein: Nachrichten, Meinungen, Bilder, Konflikte. Zwischen Schlagzeilen, Mitteilungen und algorithmisch kuratierten Ablenkungen verlieren wir leicht das Gefühl für das, was wirklich wichtig ist. Der Tag beginnt im Reizmodus – und nicht selten bleibt er dort.

    In solchen Momenten spüre ich, wie weit ich von dem entfernt bin, was ich eigentlich suche: einen ruhigen, klaren Blick – kurz: Gelassenheit. Doch was heisst das eigentlich? Und wie kann man sie finden?

    Meine Antwort darauf? Stoische Klarheit, kynischer Verzicht und epikureisches Masshalten. Gewürzt mit einer Prise wissenschaftlicher Evidenz.

    text.tchncs.de/gisiger/die-rad

    #Gelassenheit #Philosophie #Psychologie #MBSR #BrainRot #DoomScrolling

  17. “Adicção’ é um termo cada vez mais usado para descrever o crescente número de crianças que participam de uma variedade de diferentes atividades de tela de maneira dependente e problemática “, diz Aric Sigman, premiado cientista britânico.

    #estudo #transtorno #tela #brainrot #ciência #saúde #mente #infância #criança #adolescente #dependência #redessociais

    portalraizes.com/transtorno-de

  18. @futurebird this - so much this.

    I have to tell people that #thinktanks, #brainrot and advantageous framing is older than the TV, older than the radio.

    The parents of #liberals and #conservatives were the #liberalists, who were groomed by the #aristocracy and the #barons.

    Words like #freemarket basically translate to markets controlled centrally by a few monopolists in an exploitative #RaceToTheBottom, where one or several entities become #KingOfTheHole.