Small sample size over 4 months, but feel like this is directionally accurate

This is why I struggle to accept large code changes in cursor — you dont read the code, you certainly dont understand it, and though product velocity increases, it becomes more brittle

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users &amp; the results are terrifying.

Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.

Here's what 4 months of data revealed:

(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong) https://t.co/OcHy9197tk

Alex Vacca

Small sample size over 4 months, but feel like this is directionally accurate

This is why I struggle to accept large code changes in cursor — you dont read the code, you certainly dont understand it, and though product velocity increases, it becomes more brittle

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

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Curious if you have ideas for what healthy AI usage looks like that doesn’t result in, or at least mitigates, the effect of cognitive atrophy?

Pragmatism (Security) at OP Labs.
Prev: ConsenSys & Coinbase.

Attribs: Friendly, curious, introverted, mid-witted.
Chans: /eth-security /maurelian /stoicism




For me, AI at its best feels at par with or better than prime Google search (eg. Cursor Ask mode)

It's on-demand information retrieval + with the bonus of automation

But when it blurs over into becoming magic that I don't understand, I become wary because that's what will infantilize me