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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/using-ai-for-just-10-minutes-erodes-your-ability-to-persist-at-hard-things/Replying to @themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I feel like they could have (and probably did) say the same think about search engines 25 years ago.
Though this does seem a bit worse, depending on how you use it.
Replying to @jaybone@lemmy.zip
Yes, I was going to ask, how does this compare to with/without internet access.
Coders were also likely more persistent when they could only read the tool’s manual and keep trying, vs getting the answer from StackOverflow immediately.
I’ve heard there’s been a decline in memorization skils since the internet, but I have not verified.
getting the answer from StackOverflow immediately.
StackOverflow didn’t have immediate responses and the responses were *how to do the thing*, not literally writing the code for you. The internet and support communities were like reference books and asking a colleague for advice, the normal way people *learn*.
LLMs are like having someone else do it for you. You have to actively try to lean something from how it did it and most people don’t, they just take the answer and move on.
Replying to @snooggums@piefed.world
Stackoverflow definitely had code you could just copy and that would be the end of it. Not always though.
Dictionaries have definitions you can just use!
Replying to @snooggums@piefed.world
You act as if people never just copied and pasted stackoverflow without reading it lol (we’ve all done it)
And code that you didn’t write is someone else doing it for you.
And if you don’t believe me, I have a bash file you can curl | bash.
Replying to @snooggums@piefed.world
I have zero patience with coding to begin with and this is the first time I can even start to learn anything.
Imagine a help function that actually does help.