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"AI has sucked my brain out of my head. It's all AI's fault"
If I were a bad coder, I would say that too now!
All bad or average brain workers may start to fear for their jobs already.
No, seriously I don't think that it is real, but I think the fear is real.
There have been multiple studies finding a general decrease in cognitive skills and critical thinking related to AI use. Here is one of them: https://doi.org/10.3390/soc15010006
There is an easy cope out to say, these were bad engineers to begin with, but I'm not convinced.
We know that if you don't use an ability and use it daily your brain just reallocates resources to other tasks. So if you have a machine that "outsources" thinking for you, you will be less able to think.
I mean, just look at what happened to Amazon’s engineers; they were forced to use AI in their daily tasks and maximize their use of AI tokens. That was also the fault of the executives who forced employees to use AI.
Indeed. It is just devs being lazy. Use your tools, don't abuse them. Same thing happened when IDEs started to be able to autocomplete and do refactorings. If that makes you stop being able to do it yourself it was never a IDE problem, but a user problem.