Comment by iLoveOncall
19 hours ago
All of this makes me selfishly excited for my own future. It's glaringly obvious that anyone who's a heavy user of LLMs is atrophying their skills in real-time. I have yet to meet a single person for whom it's not the case.
But I essentially completely stopped using them for software engineering (why isn't really relevant, but it's not because od this skill atrophy). So as the skills of everyone else is diminishing, mine is proportionally raising.
It has never been easier to get better than others. You don't need to put in more effort, just the same effort as you always have, and others will do the job of losing their skills for your own benefit.
This only holds if society manages to hang together, which in the age of military strategy written by AI is looking borderline.
That thought came to me early but it feels like a pyrrhic victory - if society is dumbed down, increasingly unstable what kind of win is that? is the excellence you've maintained even valued at that point? standards even within tech, both technical and moral, have withered. this is a function of its popularity and openness but still