What a fantastic quote:
> We’re not becoming 10x developers with AI.
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> We’re becoming 10x dependent on AI. There’s a difference.
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> Every time we let AI solve a problem we could’ve solved ourselves, we’re trading long-term understanding for short-term productivity. We’re optimizing for today’s commit at the cost of tomorrow’s ability.
source: nmn.gl/blog/ai-illiterate-prog…
AI is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers
A couple of days ago, Cursor went down during the ChatGPT outage. I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS error glared back at me. I didn’t want to figure it out without AI’s help.N’s Blog
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Jared White — Free Garcia Now!
in reply to Emelia 👸🏻 • • •“After 12 years of coding, I’d somehow become worse at my own craft”
Bingo. And that's why the #ProCraft movement needs to fight this dangerous technology with everything we've got.
(Alas I can't agree with the author when they say this: “I’m not suggesting we abandon AI tools—that ship has sailed.” Personally, I'm waiting for the ship to sink right into the ocean.)