People said the exact same thing about web searches, and I think there's a lot of devs who would instant search for every issue they hit.
Isn't this just better web search?
On the other hand, it definitely feels like it might be too big a step in the spoon feeding direction.
Writing code without AI feels like art, and writing it with AI feels like painting a wall: get it done quickly, cheaply, and good enough that people don't see issues.
It's the art part of engineering that's being lost, AI has no appreciation of elegance. It has no empathy for cognitive overhead of bad code or poor-fit design patterns.
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[ 1.4 ms ] story [ 17.6 ms ] threadPeople said the exact same thing about web searches, and I think there's a lot of devs who would instant search for every issue they hit.
Isn't this just better web search?
On the other hand, it definitely feels like it might be too big a step in the spoon feeding direction.
Writing code without AI feels like art, and writing it with AI feels like painting a wall: get it done quickly, cheaply, and good enough that people don't see issues.
It's the art part of engineering that's being lost, AI has no appreciation of elegance. It has no empathy for cognitive overhead of bad code or poor-fit design patterns.
Cognitive Debt is the phrase to Google btw.
Read in the Substack app Open app The "Learned Helplessness" of AI we're losing our ability to think himanshu Nov 19, 2025
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Every time you ask ChatGPT to write the difficult logic, prepare a plan, or do something creative, you are doing one thing: outsourcing friction.
And friction is where skill is built.
We are training our brains to believe: If I can’t instantly retrieve the answer, the machine will retrieve it for me.
This isn’t about being productive. This is about being functionally dependent. The moment we loose access to an LLM, we become clueless 3 year olds.
I might be wrong , i’ll write another post about accelerated learning through AI.
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