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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

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

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

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

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

"Don't mistake legibility for communication."

#design #mentalmodel

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_carson_design_and_discovery

#Wrike seems to have more #ProjectManagement features than Trello, but it overwhelms a novice—too many views, options, and settings in many places. Wrike insists I need a "Personal" project. (I really don't.) The #MentalModel of its Projects and Folders is unclear. Wrike's online chatbot hallucinated wrong pricing for me—a potential customer. 😥

#Trello is familiar, with simple, elegant, and useful interaction. Its templates quickly spin up a #Kanban #board for a new #software or #IT #project. 🩵

#Wrike seems to have more #ProjectManagement features than Trello, but it overwhelms a novice—too many views, options, and settings in many places. Wrike insists I need a "Personal" project. (I really don't.) The #MentalModel of its Projects and Folders is unclear. Wrike's online chatbot hallucinated wrong pricing for me—a potential customer. 😥

#Trello is familiar, with simple, elegant, and useful interaction. Its templates quickly spin up a #Kanban #board for a new #software or #IT #project. 🩵

#Wrike seems to have more #ProjectManagement features than Trello, but it overwhelms a novice—too many views, options, and settings in many places. Wrike insists I need a "Personal" project. (I really don't.) The #MentalModel of its Projects and Folders is unclear. Wrike's online chatbot hallucinated wrong pricing for me—a potential customer. 😥

#Trello is familiar, with simple, elegant, and useful interaction. Its templates quickly spin up a #Kanban #board for a new #software or #IT #project. 🩵

#Wrike seems to have more #ProjectManagement features than Trello, but it overwhelms a novice—too many views, options, and settings in many places. Wrike insists I need a "Personal" project. (I really don't.) The #MentalModel of its Projects and Folders is unclear. Wrike's online chatbot hallucinated wrong pricing for me—a potential customer. 😥

#Trello is familiar, with simple, elegant, and useful interaction. Its templates quickly spin up a #Kanban #board for a new #software or #IT #project. 🩵

#Wrike seems to have more #ProjectManagement features than Trello, but it overwhelms a novice—too many views, options, and settings in many places. Wrike insists I need a "Personal" project. (I really don't.) The #MentalModel of its Projects and Folders is unclear. Wrike's online chatbot hallucinated wrong pricing for me—a potential customer. 😥

#Trello is familiar, with simple, elegant, and useful interaction. Its templates quickly spin up a #Kanban #board for a new #software or #IT #project. 🩵

#Development #Guides
A mental model for CSS Grid · Let’s think of a grid as a spreadsheet https://ilo.im/167ji7

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#Layout #Grid #CssGrid #MentalModel #WebDev #Frontend #CSS

#Haskell #opinion #poll:

Check all that you consider functions in Haskell. (The question is not whether you believe these exist in Haskell (all 4 do), but rather which ones (according to your opinion / your terminology use) are to be considered to be "functions".)

#functionalProgramming #opinionPoll #concept #mentalModel

#Haskell #opinion #poll:

Check all that you consider functions in Haskell. (The question is not whether you believe these exist in Haskell (all 4 do), but rather which ones (according to your opinion / your terminology use) are to be considered to be "functions".)

#functionalProgramming #opinionPoll #concept #mentalModel

Ah yes, because what we all need is yet another "adopt a new mental model" sermon for Rust, the language that prides itself on having the most exclusive club of frustrated learners 🤦‍♂️. Lifetimes, ownership, trait systems... it's not a language; it's a lifestyle. Just let your guard down and embrace the chaos, right? 😂
https://corrode.dev/blog/flattening-rusts-learning-curve/ #RustProgramming #FrustratedLearners #MentalModel #ChaosEmbrace #LanguageLifestyle #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, because what we all need is yet another "adopt a new mental model" sermon for Rust, the language that prides itself on having the most exclusive club of frustrated learners 🤦‍♂️. Lifetimes, ownership, trait systems... it's not a language; it's a lifestyle. Just let your guard down and embrace the chaos, right? 😂
https://corrode.dev/blog/flattening-rusts-learning-curve/ #RustProgramming #FrustratedLearners #MentalModel #ChaosEmbrace #LanguageLifestyle #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, because what we all need is yet another "adopt a new mental model" sermon for Rust, the language that prides itself on having the most exclusive club of frustrated learners 🤦‍♂️. Lifetimes, ownership, trait systems... it's not a language; it's a lifestyle. Just let your guard down and embrace the chaos, right? 😂
https://corrode.dev/blog/flattening-rusts-learning-curve/ #RustProgramming #FrustratedLearners #MentalModel #ChaosEmbrace #LanguageLifestyle #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, because what we all need is yet another "adopt a new mental model" sermon for Rust, the language that prides itself on having the most exclusive club of frustrated learners 🤦‍♂️. Lifetimes, ownership, trait systems... it's not a language; it's a lifestyle. Just let your guard down and embrace the chaos, right? 😂
https://corrode.dev/blog/flattening-rusts-learning-curve/ #RustProgramming #FrustratedLearners #MentalModel #ChaosEmbrace #LanguageLifestyle #HackerNews #ngated

Solomonoff induction is a theory that describes an optimal method for predicting future data based on past observations. It is a great mental model to understand #LLMs and how we could get to #AGI.
#AI #mentalmodel #OpenAI #GPT

https://open.substack.com/pub/deepgains/p/understanding-llms-and-agi-through?r=8stv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Development #Approaches
Mental model shift for CSS · With the right mindset, CSS is easier to understand https://ilo.im/162qda

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#ModernCSS #CSS #Skills #MentalModel #WebDev #Frontend

Describing a new human communications protocol for security professionals in a recent podcast episode " InfoSec Philosophy and Theory Series: New Comms Protocol":

https://youtu.be/yT3cBN-mOV8?feature=shared&t=1473

"This episode is a merging of several concepts into a practical working draft for improving human security communications. The presented sequence for alignment enables a receptivity of new intelligence. An exchange between varying levels of developed spheres allows for new InfoSec solutions to be accessed."

Audio versions
https://fountain.fm/episode/wCj1229BRcaUycri9ZFS

https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/bitcoin-security-maps/infosec-philosophy-and-theory-series-new-comms-protocol

#comms #communications #protocol #human #alignment

#BSM #bitcoinsecuritymaps #theskyishigh #meshcode #mattyk #cyberpowertelenoia #mindmaps #mentalmodel #civilianintelligence #beinghuman #secretlayer
#infosec #philosophy #theory #research #consulting #system #security #being #state #dimension #attunedlearning #culture #layer #secret #appsec #cybersec #devsecops #ssdlc #writeup #intelligence #information #operations

The show is hosted on Podhome:
https://serve.podhome.fm/bitcoin-security-maps

Audio episodes are best streamed on Fountain:
https://fountain.fm/show/Qe7TPBbzNXjhdD3s7QQc

The main video episodes are on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@BitcoinSecurityMaps

Describing a new human communications protocol for security professionals in a recent podcast episode " InfoSec Philosophy and Theory Series: New Comms Protocol":

https://youtu.be/yT3cBN-mOV8?feature=shared&t=1473

"This episode is a merging of several concepts into a practical working draft for improving human security communications. The presented sequence for alignment enables a receptivity of new intelligence. An exchange between varying levels of developed spheres allows for new InfoSec solutions to be accessed."

Audio versions
https://fountain.fm/episode/wCj1229BRcaUycri9ZFS

https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/bitcoin-security-maps/infosec-philosophy-and-theory-series-new-comms-protocol

#comms #communications #protocol #human #alignment

#BSM #bitcoinsecuritymaps #theskyishigh #meshcode #mattyk #cyberpowertelenoia #mindmaps #mentalmodel #civilianintelligence #beinghuman #secretlayer
#infosec #philosophy #theory #research #consulting #system #security #being #state #dimension #attunedlearning #culture #layer #secret #appsec #cybersec #devsecops #ssdlc #writeup #intelligence #information #operations

The show is hosted on Podhome:
https://serve.podhome.fm/bitcoin-security-maps

Audio episodes are best streamed on Fountain:
https://fountain.fm/show/Qe7TPBbzNXjhdD3s7QQc

The main video episodes are on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@BitcoinSecurityMaps

In his keynote Peter Clarke from Allen Institute for AI is showing how to apply structured reasoning on natural language, reviving the idea of semantic web services by using NL communication between agents to build robust multi-agent services. Watch out for #LLM agents!

#knowledgegraphs #semanticweb #semanticwebservices #agents #mentalmodel #eswc2024

#Development #Guidances
Do you want to learn HTML or CSS? · Start with the basics, not with a component system https://ilo.im/15yyt9

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#MentalModel #WebDev #Frontend #DOM #HTML #CSS #JavaScript

#Design #Launches
Visual Frameworks · A collection of pictorial mental models to clarify your thoughts https://ilo.im/131x14

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#Thinking #Imagination #Reframing #Mindset #MentalModel #VisualThinking #Visualization #Framework #Business #Design #UxDesign #UiDesign #DigitalDesign #WebDesign #WebDevelopment #WebDev

#CognitiveMapping is a method of understanding how #users consider and #interact with a #product or an #interface based on the way they think about it. The #technique consists of creating a #visual representation of the user’s #MentalModel.

https://uxplanet.org/navigating-the-mind-understanding-the-power-of-cognitive-mapping-ab25c4bfe351?source=rss----819cc2aaeee0---4

#UX #Research

I love the #MentalModel I get into when I’m #hyperfocusing on something. I just googled “differences fluffy and”, and was surprised it didn’t autocomplete “regular”. After all these search queries the past three days, you’d think Google would know I’m talking about a #corgi.

repost: Lean Software development: The art of postponing decisions https://www.eferro.net/2022/08/software-development-art-of-postponing.html?spref=tw

#LeanSoftwareDevelopment #DeferCommitment #agile #MentalModel

repost: Lean Software development: The art of postponing decisions https://www.eferro.net/2022/08/software-development-art-of-postponing.html?spref=tw

#LeanSoftwareDevelopment #DeferCommitment #agile #MentalModel

repost: Lean Software development: The art of postponing decisions https://www.eferro.net/2022/08/software-development-art-of-postponing.html?spref=tw

#LeanSoftwareDevelopment #DeferCommitment #agile #MentalModel

repost: Lean Software development: The art of postponing decisions https://www.eferro.net/2022/08/software-development-art-of-postponing.html?spref=tw

#LeanSoftwareDevelopment #DeferCommitment #agile #MentalModel

repost: Lean Software development: The art of postponing decisions https://www.eferro.net/2022/08/software-development-art-of-postponing.html?spref=tw

#LeanSoftwareDevelopment #DeferCommitment #agile #MentalModel