#deskilling — Public Fediverse posts

One of the best opinions I have read on using LLMs for programming:
https://larsfaye.com/articles/ai-coding-will-prevent-expertise

Yeah, no, no TLDR, just go and f*ing read it.

#llm #code #webdev #softwareDevelopment #claude #ai #essays #deskilling

The Retirement Is Always Silent

https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/22/the-retirement-is-always-silent/

#Deskilling durch #KI ist real. Und zwar in absolut bemerkenswertem Umfang! Studie aus China.
#BadNews

Via BioSchweiz (@BioSchweiz) https://troet.cafe/@BioSchweiz/117126180059844312

Eine sehr gut Beschriebene Erfahrung aus Sicht eines Lehrenden mit #deskilling durch #KI. Allerdings muss ich sagen, dass ich selbst an der Uni auch echt dreist mit billigen Folien vor Zeiten der KI von Lehrenden zugesloppt wurde. Vielleicht ist mal Zeit für eine Weiterentwicklung unserer Unis?

From: @MMagdowski
https://bildung.social/@MMagdowski/117129906854335771

"All the people who are clean and sober, I have one question: If drugs disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without a single line of coke? Imagine if snorting white powder. Would you actually be willing to continue on as normal?"

#AI #noAI #artificialIntelligence #deskilling #AIDeskilling #AIAddiction

"In this episode, #stuartrussell the founder of UC Berkeley's Center for Human-Compatible #AI describes a $15 quadrillion prize, a singularity from the #future sucking nearly all the money on Earth into its depths. If such a dangerous system gets loose, the only answer is the size of the problem: we would probably have to shut down the #internet."
#society #agi #humanity #deskilling #technology #bigtech #mythos #ailiens
https://youtu.be/GUWNTkPsJr8

With all the #AIDeskilling and #enshittification, people (and junior software engineers, sorry, "junior vibe coders") will be asking this in ten years.

And the last true software engineers who can still write code on their own will weep, because nobody remembers them and everyone takes slop for granted.

#AI #deskilling #LLMs #artificialIntelligence #noAI #vibeCoding #genAI #generativeAI #platformDecay #ensh11n

RE: https://floss.social/@opensourcefeed/116940965868195047

It's so funny. Until this, most people in my feed understood that the dangers of #AI were more than the hypothetical scenario of #LLMs going rogue. Most of them knew what the environmental impact of #dataCenters is. They knew about #AIPsychosis. They knew about the job market disruptions. They knew about #deskilling.

But now people are posting about #LinusTorvalds somewhat liking AI, because they like Linus Torvalds as a rebel—how isn't that ideology?

#noAI

just because your #llm wrote a big change that satisfies the exact acceptance criteria, doesn't mean you're any closer to the desired result. #WhackAMoleStrategy #ownyourcode #deskilling

I just landing in a fairly large (for us) ongoing e-com project where #vibecoding is common practice, and this is first thing I find: an as yet unidentified LLM solving a timeout issue in one service by introducing a call explosion in another.

I'm getting too old for this... #GrandpasRant

Как широкий доступ к ИИ‑кодогенерации тихо разъедает инженерную команду

Представьте свою команду через пару лет после того, как все в ней дружно подсели на ИИ. CI зелёный. Покрытие почти сто процентов. Фичи выкатываются быстрее, чем раньше. А теперь подойдите к любому и попросите у доски объяснить, как вообще устроена система: где границы модулей, почему контракты именно такие, что рванёт, если потянуть вот за этот сервис. И окажется, что целиком этого не знает никто. Код есть, он работает, и его никто не понимает. Самое удобное объяснение звучит так: значит, набрали слабых инженеров. Я хочу показать, что это объяснение неверное, и что за последние два года накопилось достаточно данных, чтобы говорить не про чьи-то личные провалы, а про свойство самой системы.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1053830/

#ИИассистенты #вайбкодинг #технический_долг #code_review #качество_кода #метрики_разработки #DORA #METR #управление_разработкой #deskilling

A recent study with endoscopy specialists in Poland found that their ability to detect pre‑cancerous lesions during colonoscopy declined after they got used to relying on an AI‑assisted tool: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

It is just one study, so it is too early to generalize. But it is a strong signal of how speed, comfort, and over‑reliance on machines can dull attention and practical skills.

Lawyers are not immune to this risk. Keeping our expertise sharp may mean continuing to read long academic texts, case law, and legislation ourselves; taking handwritten notes; and having face‑to‑face conversations as much as possible.

How are you trying to prevent “deskilling” in your own profession?

#AI #HealthTech #LegalTech #LawFedi #Deskilling

"A study of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities. The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.

Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4% of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.

Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools, says Robert Wachter, a physician at the University of California, San Francisco, who is the author of a book on how AI tools are transforming health care. The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.

Co-author Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, says that more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. “There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

#AI #Deskilling #Science #Medicine

Wenig überraschend für mich, aber schön, dass es auch wissenschaftlich untersucht und bestätigt wurde.

"Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good"

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01947-1

Was ich faszinierend in den Beobachtungen in meinem beruflichen Umfeld finde ist, dass die Leute annehmen, dieser Effekt beträfe sie ja nicht und das auch hart verteidigen.

#AI #KI #Deskilling #NoAI

Physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images. Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable.

#AI #Medicine #Deskilling

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116778104602302611

The results are in: Using AI tools to help you in your job makes your cognitive decisions worse when they’re not around.

#ai #deskilling #research

#Nature: "Is #AI ruining our #skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good"

... Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of #physicians and #software #engineers, studies show ...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

#deskilling

Insider's ethnography of talking financialization media.

"Analysts and media figures understand financial talk as requiring a skill set distinct from conducting research or representing facts."

(Publisher description for Alex Preda, The Spectacle of Expertise, 2023)

#SkillsMismatch #NonComplementarySkills #DecoupledSkills #IncompatibleSkills #SkillsBifurcation #Deskill #Deskilling #Deskilled #Econonomics #Econ #EconPolicy

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-spectacle-of-expertise/9780231202473/

At this point it is just assumed by some that you have a #ChatGPT subscription and use their agent to do things on your computer.

When asking in a community chat how to setup the self-hosted sync server, they tell you to ask your agent.

When people follow that advice and let the AI do it for them or learn it the wrong way, they don't understand what they are doing and might end up with an insecure setup.

#AI #Capitalism #Deskilling #Dystopia #SelfHosting

So the autodeskilled software engineer can't remember how to finish this class, and he says to himself, "I know! I'll use AI."

Now he has two problems, plus a month-end bill the size of a 2-bedroom house.

(with apologies to @jwz)

#AI #LLM #deskill #deskilling #autodeskill #autodeskilling #software #engineer #StochasticParrot #jwz

Nowy, kosmiczny odcinek mojego podcastu "What the Fox says" jest już dostępny!

Dzisiejsze wydanie zdominowały tematy pozaziemskie, ale nie zabrakło też twardych, ziemskich realiów technologicznych. Sprawdźcie, o czym opowiadam w tym odcinku:

* Rewolucja w astrofizyce: Przyglądam się nowym odkryciom Kosmicznego Teleskopu Jamesa Webba. Układ WL20 rzuca wyzwanie dotychczasowym modelom fizycznym, a nowe dane mogą w końcu wyjaśnić zagadkę powstawania supermasywnych czarnych dziur we wczesnym wszechświecie.
* Nowa era napędów i misji: Omawiam sukcesy testów zaawansowanego napędu plazmowego NASA (AEPS) oraz technologie kriogeniczne Blue Origin – to technologie, które skrócą podróż na Marsa i pomogą nam przetrwać księżycową noc.
* Bitwa o suwerenność cyfrową: Analizuję projekt rosyjskiej konstelacji satelitarnej Razvet, która ma być odpowiedzią na Starlinka, oraz przytaczam dramatyczny apel twórcy Mistral AI o przyszłość europejskiej sztucznej inteligencji.
* Technologiczny "deskilling": Zastanawiam się, czy bezkrytyczne poleganie na automatyzacji i AI nie prowadzi nas prostą drogą do erozji poznawczej i utraty zdolności krytycznej oceny sytuacji.
* Innowacje bliżej nas: Rozkładam na czynniki pierwsze Europejski Portfel Tożsamości Cyfrowej i kryptograficzne dowody wiedzy zerowej (Zero-Knowledge Proof), największy na kontynencie wanadowy magazyn energii w okolicach Manchesteru oraz medyczny przełom w badaniach nad niehormonalną antykoncepcją dla mężczyzn (białko ARRDC4).

Gdzie leży granica między automatyzacją a intelektualną kapitulacją? Zapraszam do słuchania i dyskusji!

https://wtfs.stream/@what_the_fox_says/episodes/odcinek-kosmiczny

#WhatTheFoxSays #Astrofizyka #NASA #BlueOrigin #Starlink #Razvet #MistralAI #AI #Deskilling #Kryptografia #ZKP #Vanadium #ARRDC4 #Nauka #Technologia

Me, just now: ugh, why doesn't this stupid IDE just suggest the syntax correction instead of making me remember it and figure it out.

!!!

Oof, I've already started becoming lazy using the (company-manded) chat LLM to help diagnose errors. I don't see how a new programmer is ever going to develop the skills and patience to debug a major problem.

#PromptAssistedDeskilling #Deskilling #ScottProgramming

#AIDeskilling is a real thing in the wake of #AI: 68% of all participants in the #StateOfAI2026 survey agree or strongly agree that due to their heavy reliance, they are becoming less and less skilled

https://2026.stateofai.dev/en-US/opinions/#ai_reliance_worse_developers

#amCoding #amProgramming #StateOfAI #noAI #AIHype #softwareEngineering #softwareDevelopment #StateOfWebDev #Deskilling #WorkforceDeskilling #artificialIntelligence

AI could make humans less intelligent, warns Royal Observatory

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2023l60370o

> Paddy Rodgers said the Observatory's rich history showed the power of human knowledge and the need to avoid "dependence" on AI.

#AI #deskilling

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