⚡️🤖 NEW - Anthropic engineer Addy Osmani warns that AI could make us stop thinking for ourselves. Working on Claude Code, he says AI agents now handle so much of his work that he rarely needs to use critical thinking. He identifies three stages: “cognitive offloading” (delegating tasks), “deferral” (accepting AI answers) and “cognitive surrender” (trusting AI completely). “Skills that you stop exercising are going to go away, and probably faster than you might guess.” Do you agree?

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El Guirri 6 days ago
Just like people have to learn to say no to other people, they have to learn to do the same with ai. This is same shit as hallucinations. "It's lying!" "Ever met a human?". Easier to just accept there's bell curves everywhere and that goes for desire to engage grey matter too
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twentyone 6 days ago
The majority of the population already hasn’t been thinking for themselves for a very long time
The decay numbers back him up. Skill retention research puts loss near zero right after training, but steep after a year without practice, and fifty years of that research says cognitive, judgment-heavy work erodes fastest. Judgment goes before execution.
Those who knew assembler, couldn't agree more. This craft is completely lost now
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