#deskilling — Public Fediverse posts
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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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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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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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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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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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Is this our future? #AI #Deskilling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgXkty83jPM
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Fascinating. The hollowing-out of Western industrial capacity will take generations to reverse. I’m especially struck by the ignorance and short-sightedness of private-equity firms and finance-minded MBAs, who never read even this sort of accessibly-technical article, but imagine their spreadsheets tell them everything they need to know about every business in the world. Shameful.
https://frontiermap.substack.com/p/the-us-imports-82-of-its-large-power
#industry #deskilling #economics #engineering #energy #grid #greenenergy
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Really interesting thoughts about AI and music (and all the rest)
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116233215808886534
Oh, that‘s exactly how AI-bros are trying to sabotage us:
„Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker“
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Hi ha qui considera que cal deixar de pensar i automatitzar-ho tot amb eines de text predictiu (#LLMs) que bàsicament ens diuen el que ja sabem.
Això és bàsicament la "desqualificació" (#deskilling): el procés pel qual tot un sector considera apropiat eliminar el coneixement expert en nom de l'eficiència, perdent la capacitat de descobrir el que no és esperable, però produint, això sí, informes a tota castanya.
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Capitalists: Great! That’s what we buy them for. #deskilling
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7xt7svg2xtjbb4e2xqahqqc/post/3mdoernjoxc2q -
KI-Einsatz: Anspruchsvolle Aufgaben werden delegiert, Routine bleibt | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/KI-Einsatz-Anspruchsvolle-Aufgaben-werden-delegiert-Routine-bleibt-11143664.html #ArtificialIntelligence #Deskilling
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@heiseonline
Dass Unternehmen #KI vorzugsweise zum #Deskilling nutzen, habe ich schon befürchtet.Interessant, dass nun ausgrechnet ein KI-Anbieter zu diesem Ergebnis kommt:
„In der Praxis werden an die Künstliche Intelligenz vor allem die anspruchsvollen Aufgaben delegiert – für die sie mit 66 Prozent eine deutlich niedrigere Erfolgsquote aufweist als bei einfachen Tätigkeiten. Die Folge: Viele Jobs werden „deskilled“, wie die Forscher es nennen. Die anspruchsvollen Teile verschwinden, die Routinearbeit bleibt.“
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#IA meilleure que humain sur certains clichés radio alors que humain meilleur pour d'autres...
IA réduit l'esprit critique et la capacité de raisonnement, réduction du nombre de synapse.
Endoscopistes assistés par IA dépistent moins bien les adénomes. #Deskilling
Renforcer l'acquisition de connaissances et compétences pour pouvoir challenger l'IA et identifier les 5% des erreurs.
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🖥️ **Bosses think AI will boost productivity — but it's actually deskilling workers, a professor says**
_"It's one thing for a senior coder to use AI," she said. "But the junior people are useless because they cannot help themselves from using it."_
_Because they lean on AI from day one, Berg said, they never build the foundational knowledge required to understand what the AI is doing — let alone verify or correct it._
🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are-deskilling-workers-philosophy-professor-2025-11.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Careers #Jobs #Productivity #Deskilling
#Image attribution: Openbiblio, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Science_hybride_V1.jpg.
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@maxleibman I'm worried about what we won't do because of it.
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The Lancet: Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to artificial intelligence in colonoscopy: a multicentre, observational study
"...Continuous exposure to AI might reduce the ADR of standard non-AI assisted colonoscopy, suggesting a negative effect on endoscopist behaviour...."
#AI #deskilling #heathcare #AIpocalypse
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract
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Das gleiche passiert in der SW-Entwicklung. Wer schon mal Cursor.AI und Konsorten genutzt hat, wird vermutlich feststellen, dass man sein Hirn abstellt und in eine Art Rausch kommt.
#deskilling #ai
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https://loudwhisper.me/blog/cloud-deskilling/
Using #Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent.
My take on how a decade (or more) of using cloud services for everything has seemingly deskilled the workforce. Just recently I found myself interviewing senior security engineers just to realize that in many cases they had absolutely no idea about how the stuff they supposedly worked with, actually worked. Who is going to build #EU clouds? -
There's a Kickstarter toy out, named "Roons". It's a bunch of Lego-style bricks with special tops that can be used to build a kind of cellular automatons that ferry marbles around according to combinations of sequential and localised processing rules.
In our century, it's a children's toy, mostly because computers exist.
But if one were to fall out of a wormhole onto the desk of any educated 15th or 16th century person, it might have changed history. For one, it'd make the most thinkingest kind of abacus available. For another, a broad adoption of them would provide a clear use case for developing the Civilisation Advance of Standardised Machine Parts centuries before its time (ironically, most likely by mass-producing the bricks using clay molds, which was millennia-old tech by that time, requiring only a few small tweaks in the clay composition, and some quality control, to become very useful).
And, while we're #worldbuilding, a mandatory aspect of this dystopia would be a form of #deskilling this Harvard Architecture Intelligent Abacus would enable, by creating a relatively sharp gradient between the skill of making new calculation boards and the skill of using them to draw deep conclusions from the way the calculi roll.
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Thinking of psychological and neurological effects of LLM-assisted work: it's basically free now because big-money first needs to create a mass of dependent consumers. Parallels to addictive drugs come to my mind.
*if you want to win take Heroin*
#LLM #AI #deskilling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_XhlZrL64Q
