Everybody has to read this https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them
Unsurprisingly research seems to indicate AI makes us dump and prevents children from developing critical thinking:
> Developers who fully delegated to AI produced working code but failed conceptual quizzes afterward. They couldn't debug what the AI had written for them. They had the output without the understanding.
#ai #vibecoding
Benedikt Ritter (he/him)
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