The thing that scares me (and why I’ve stopped using it): my brain automatically reaches for the shortcut whenever I would have to do deep thinking/planning.
I have ADD, so getting my brain to focus and work on a task is not an easy feat to begin with.
Now I’ve found myself multiple times a day unable to will myself to think about a problem but rather deferred to Claude. It’s seriously fucked up.
The thing that scares me (and why I’ve stopped using it): my brain automatically reaches for the shortcut whenever I would have to do deep thinking/planning.
I have ADD, so getting my brain to focus and work on a task is not an easy feat to begin with. Now I’ve found myself multiple times a day unable to will myself to think about a problem but rather deferred to Claude. It’s seriously fucked up.
That’s not even diminished coding ability, that’s diminished thinking ability.
And herein lies the reason AI is being pushed at all costs.
That’s what I came to this post to comment; atrophy of coding ability is just a vidible effect of the more generalized atrophy of thought.
What’s the saying again… :“The purpose of a system is what it does”
Pedantically I don’t like that saying but it is certainly useful