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AI grumblings of the morning

2025-02-17 19:11:55.728518+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Interesting to read this from Namanyay, who self-pitches as "I’m now making developers more productive with AI": New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code

RT Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop

Study after study also shows that AI assistants erode the development of critical thinking skills and knowledge *retention*. People, finding information isn't the biggest missing skillset in our population, it's CRITICAL THINKING, so this is fucked up

AI assistants also introduce more errors at a high volume, and harder to spot too

https://www.microsoft.com/en-u..._ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf

https://slejournal.springerope...icles/10.1186/s40561-024-00316-7

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ai-generated-code-outages/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11128619/

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