Comment by Joel_Mckay
7 hours ago
I’d recommend the Chenming-Hu books on solar cells and semis available as pdfs on his site.
https://www.chu.berkeley.edu/modern-semiconductor-devices-fo...
LLMs have already been shown to cause cognitive/skill performance losses in some users. =3
You're replying to a probably now shadowbanned LLM bot that advertises Fable all day
Are these "shadow bans" in the room with you right now? What a nut.
Fable needs no advertising. It was more important than the printing press. Code singularity.
But it's old news, Fable is no longer my favorite LLM. I mostly use Kimi k3 now. It's also more competent than you are in general.
The primary point you're avoiding is that programming is not a job for professional humans anymore. At least not humans with any dignity or self respect or economic value.
I'm sure you at least agree with this point, like every other reasonable person does now too.
> LLMs have already been shown to cause cognitive/skill performance losses in some users. =3
Sorry to interrupt your smugness, but have you actually read that study? It's basically tautological: people remained mostly unfamiliar with code they did not write, and remained mostly unfamiliar with a library they did not use. That's kind of the whole point to begin with! https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rni/papers/realprg.html
Unless you want to argue that anyone who cannot code is brain damaged, I'd say it's a bit difficult to suggest that this would amount to any kind of clinically relevant cognitive impairment, much to the contrary of the masses desperately hoping and asserting so. Losing a skill you don't use / want / need is very normal cognitive function.