Predictions on they type of people the AI age will produce

The key skills you learn from math is not arithmetic. If you're rationale for math not being helpful is that you don't find yourself doing arithmetic, you're not focusing on the main takeaway from math. The key skill is problem solving and logical processing.

I've got a coworker who still attends something one could call programming school. They use AI extensively. I am not sure if I could trust him to complete a project in a way that would leave it maintainable. Of that he could maintain it.

Sure, but that isn't the point I'm making.

Consider that my analogy was referring specifically to arithmetic, while we have calculators in our pockets.

Consider a different analogy if you want, spell checkers.

If they came out now, I'm sure you'd have people arguing that people will never learn how to spell.

I think the article had a couple of good examples of how to use an AI.

Ask for hints, not answers: People who ask AI to directly answer their questions suffer severe declines in motivation and ability. But people who ask AI for background thinking or clarifications do not.

Start with a blank page: Before you go to the bot, start with a blank piece of paper and write up your own analysis and conclusions. Then ask AI to challenge your thinking, not produce it.

Ask for thinkers, not thinking: My favorite trick when using Claude is to never ask it to think through a problem for me. I ask it to summarize the thinkers who have already addressed a given problem. If I’m trying to understand child development, I ask it to imagine a debate between Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson. What would these two great psychologists say to each other about the problem I’m wrestling with? Then I ask it what books by these thinkers I should read if I want to understand their work. I get much better results from AI when I treat it as a brilliant librarian rather than as an oracle.

How do you feel about all your personal notes being sent to OpenAI?

What personal notes? That Sathyaraj has managed to turn about 3 weeks of work into three months? That I have to remember to hound the platform team to review a change request? Or that I requested a production change so I have to remember to go to the approval board today to get it approved?

OpenAI can have all that.

I'm not mad at the article really, it's just dumb. I'm mostly mad at the dumbass I responded to

There is yes, AI doesn't seem to be a solution to that.

I hope I'm wrong and the worry turns out to be unfounded, but absent any meaningful regulation for the evident effects of LLMs on people's cognitive abilities and mental health, I don't have much of a reason to assume there won't be disastrous effects in the future.

That's probably a fair point. We'll see how it all plays out. I'm assuming the worst for due to the lack of any concern on the part if the tech community and the lack of any meaningful guardrails or regulation.

Precisely.

The problem is the emerging inability to think.

whatever kind of person it is that uses LLM datasets and digital assisstant spyware apps, i don't think primordial nor goo are accurate desciptions of them

The less patience and higher anxiety is already happening in higher numbers among new hires. It’s astonishing.

The people who spend 23 hours a day running agents and outputting 300 slop emails an hour aren't seeking cognition, they're seeking quick rewards; "working" with "AI" isn't a cognitive task so much as it's a gambling task. Just keep asking Claude to try again on that PR and eventually you get that dopamine hit from it making a not-totally-shitty solution and you never had to actually engage your higher brain function, you just did lots of low level churn of "prompting".

Sure buddy. Nobody can see the comments you left on this public forum