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We all knew this was going to be the case. You look at the people around you feeding their entire lives to it, surrendering their will to it completely, you knew it was going to fry their brains extra fast.
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.
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.
We learned how to use the library pre-search engines. Libraries were stacked with text books. Also, education was cheaper, so you could simply learn to code in a classroom.
I read a study that people used to focus on remembering information they learned, but given the opportunity (Internet, books) instead they focused on remembering the location of the information they learned so that they could access it later
The latter is a great approach for knowing where to find knowledge you don't know. Like understanding how a library is organized makes finding something easier so if you haven't previously learned about something you know where to find it. It is basically how research is done.
Knowing how to filter what is important and what isn't is another skill that helps to apply that approach, and LLMs don't provide anything that helps with that kind of filtering.
What a load of shite.
If I asked an intern to do something and then review their work is that eroding my ability to work?
Software devs becoming managers, who then lose the ability to reason about software dev is a good example of the anwer being "yes, sometimes".
My managers seeming plenty eroded rn 😅
I don't know the details of this study but it sounds like a basic result if you get people to rely on something for most of an activity and then you take it away vs those who are doing it manually, they've been given more progressively difficult challenges but they've been actually practicing and doing the work and hence internalizing it better.
It's like those open versus closed book exams where those who actually study can do much better than those going through a book during the exam to figure it out. It's about internalizing and practicing a material.
Not really surprising results. I guess the empirical verification is good.
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