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This study is really interesting to me cause I don’t think AI inherently makes us dumb, but of course it will if we’re blindly deferring to it without trying to understand what it produces

In a similar vein, I can navigate places I lived before GPS without a phone no problem but I’m immediately lost without my phone in Denver even though I’ve lived here for 5 years. My fault for deferring, but I don’t really value memorizing the layout of cities (if you do, that’s dope and I respect it)

With software (or anything I find interesting, really), I need to know why stuff works. So once I get an answer for something new, I start using it as a research assistant to understand the why

So yeah, imo the results aren’t surprising but I love that we’re studying this stuff. The brain is a muscle, and all that. I think it’s important to point this out

My gut tells me that, at least until AGI eats us all, the value of AI scales exponentially with the knowledge of the user. I.e. an amateur in a field with AI can be productive, but a pro with AI can dominate

Kinda reminds me of the advice to not just copy/paste code from stack overflow. The problem isn’t new, just a different flavor 

https://x.com/itsalexvacca/status/1935343874421178762

if you stop lifting weights, they’ll decay. use it or loose it.

it’s a choice, a convenience. build the muscles you want, defer the rest to AI.

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totally but I think some of the people have to go all the way to then be able to step back.

“Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”

this is embracing AI and going too far with it.

similarly, the world is going to get more extreme. It’s inevitable.￼

Writes and Write-Nots

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You're totally right. I think hype cycles are a push and pull and once we hit the apex, people will have to rebalance.

That was a really good read, btw. I'll be a "write" till I die. I love reflecting on my beliefs and I especially love having a thought partner to help me dissect them, so I really appreciate the convo!

> Is that so bad? Isn't it common for skills to disappear when technology makes them obsolete?
> Yes, it's bad. The reason is something I mentioned earlier: writing is thinking.
> So a world divided into writes and write-nots is more dangerous than it sounds. It will be a world of thinks and think-nots. I know which half I want to be in, and I bet you do too.

Very well put.

totally but I think some of the people have to go all the way to then be able to step back.

“Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”

this is embracing AI and going too far with it.

similarly, the world is going to get more extreme. It’s inevitable.￼

Writes and Write-Nots

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> build the muscles you want, defer the rest to AI

Def agree,  I just hope people are thinking about what they want to learn and not just deferring _everything_ to AI.

There's so much nuance here, I see people getting super hyped about how quickly you can make something new, but ignoring the fact that if you don't understand what you made, improving it will be that much harder.

I saw a post that took off where someone was like, "AI will let us iterate 10,000x more." My first thought was that I never want to iterate that much. Define a good (or good enough) product first. Use AI to help you do that. Iterate to make it better, but building the wrong thing 10k times is, IMO, a sign that someone should've taken the time to think about what they were building first.

> it's a choice, a convenience

100%. I'd also add that it's a trade-off.