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Drawn from what Derek Sivers and Scott H. Young said
AI and human skill Practised abilities decaying because a machine now does them: writing, thinking, reading anything long.
Their wordsMy brain feels stronger because I work through the problem instead of prompting it away.
Their wordsLearning requires an investment of effort, and AI will make us stupider if that effort is avoided.
Where this was said
↗Will AI Make Us Stupid?scotthyoung.com
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A sense of achievement in software survives writing almost none of the code yourself.
Sivers treats working a problem out without prompting as exercise, and says the help makes you weaker. Hansson says a sense of achievement survives writing almost none of the code yourself. They agree that something is being traded and disagree about whether the thing lost matters.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.