jaybone comments on Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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.

[–] redwattlebird 2 points 7 hours ago

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.

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[–] oce@jlai.lu 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago

I have zero patience with coding to begin with and this is the first time I can even start to learn anything.

Imagine a help function that actually does help.

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