#useitorloseit — Public Fediverse posts
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Do you have your DotScot domain yet?
https://bylines.scot/news/economics/business/scotland-and-its-internet-identity/
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Do you have your DotScot domain yet?
https://bylines.scot/news/economics/business/scotland-and-its-internet-identity/
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#WorthARead Gerlich: AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
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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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#WorthARead Kosmyna/Hauptmann/Yuan/Situ/Liao/Beresnitzky/Braunstein/Maes: Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
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#WorthARead Qadir/Mumtaz: The Psychology of Learning from Machines: Anthropomorphic AI and the Paradox of Automation in Education
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"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used."
Hunter S. Thompson
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"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used."
Hunter S. Thompson
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“#CognitiveSurrender” leads #AI users to abandon #logical thinking, research finds
Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting “faulty” AI answers.
Kyle Orland – Apr 3, 2026
#Vulcanize🖖🏼 #AISucks #UseLogic #UseItOrLoseIt #DumbingUsDown #CriticalThinkingSkills
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“#CognitiveSurrender” leads #AI users to abandon #logical thinking, research finds
Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting “faulty” AI answers.
Kyle Orland – Apr 3, 2026
#Vulcanize🖖🏼 #AISucks #UseLogic #UseItOrLoseIt #DumbingUsDown #CriticalThinkingSkills
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#WorthARead Abbas/Jam/Khan: Is it harmful or helpful? Examining the causes and consequences of generative AI usage among university students
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#WorthARead Wang/Fan: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis
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#WorthARead Riley/Al-Refai/Reyes/Hammad: Human-AI Interactions: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Emotional Impacts
https://aiawareness.eu/literature/human-ai-interactions-cognitive-behavioral-and-emotional-impacts
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#WorthARead Riva: Digital “we”: Human sociality and culture in the era of social media and artificial intelligence.
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#WorthARead Lopez-Lopez/Abels/Lorenz-Spreen/Lewandowsky/Herzog: Boosting metacognition in entangled human-AI interaction to navigate cognitive-behavioral drift
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#WorthARead Chiriatti/Ganapini/Panai/Wiederhold/Riva: System 0: Transforming Artificial Intelligence into a Cognitive Extension
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#WorthARead Singh/Taneja/Guan/Ghosh: Protecting Human Cognition in the Age of AI
https://aiawareness.eu/literature/protecting-human-cognition-in-the-age-of-ai
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This FF-FG-Lowry/Healy-Rae landlord government will only ever rule in their interests. We need rid of them.
It is their political choice to make people homeless.
We need State Construction Company to build housing without the profiteering. Bring the vacant homes into use. We need real protections for renters - not these new pretent ones from the government, that benefit landlords.
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This FF-FG-Lowry/Healy-Rae landlord government will only ever rule in their interests. We need rid of them.
It is their political choice to make people homeless.
We need State Construction Company to build housing without the profiteering. Bring the vacant homes into use. We need real protections for renters - not these new pretent ones from the government, that benefit landlords.
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It's Mask Week this week. It’s school holidays, so I've been masking less than usual, but here are some of the places I've worn a mask.🧵 #UseItOrLoseIt #NYMaskWeek #Masking #MaskWeek #InfectionPrevention #PublicHealth #CommunityHealth #CleanAir #N95
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They are still hanging in there with masking. They are showing more interest in live music, so I'll have a big🧵on grassroots music up soon. #GetLoud #UseItOrLoseIt #CovidIsNotOver #SaltingTheVibes #YallMasking #Listen
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#GetLoud #UseItOrLoseIt It's my birthday soon, and my sons have decided to start a tradition of buying me music that they want to listen to. I wonder what they'll get me. I'll have a new song out soon. Plenty of time to write this week.🧵 This Is Not About Us (BANKS cover)
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German economists 🇩🇪 in @scienceadvances debunk the myth: cognitive decline isn't inevitable – it depends on how often you use your skills!
📄 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads1560
If you actively engage, your literacy & numeracy improve even after 40. 📈But if you’ve been outsourcing your thinking… well, let’s just say your brain follows the same curve as your ghostwritten papers. 😏
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@Ex_spurt
@bgrinter
@Amgine
@DjityDjityOh shit US is threatening to invade Australia now ? Pushing for new tariffs ?
Trying to sell more unreliable shit ?
What's going on ?!!#UseItOrLoseIt
#USTariffs
#RentMyShitOrElse
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The government represents those who get rich from the housing crisis, not those who suffer from it. That is why they refuse to do anything that would even begin to deal with it.
The right the profit should NOT be placed over people's right to a home.
I won't hold my breath on the response from Micheál Martin...
#HousingCrisis #UseItOrLoseIt #Vacancy -
AI Use Diminishes Critical Thinking in new study from Microsoft no less.
I’m cognizant of the similar pushback we’ve seen with writing, compilers, calculators, digital devices, and the Internet but I think this is a different level of diminishment.
I fear for the written word.
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/
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Har hatt som mål de siste åra å benytte biblioteket mest mulig og lese bøkene de har å tilby. I 2024 var 82% av bøkene jeg leste eller lytta til biblioteksbøker.
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@coveringclimate Just received email invite to yr April 25 webinar on 'pre-bunking' to inoculate against climate misinformation... sounds great, pls share here:) #MastodonFan #UseitOrLoseIt #journalism @tttmediaxr