Endspiel 5

Der häufig vermutete Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking wurde mittlerweile systematisch untersucht, und die Ergebnisse bestätigen die Befürchtungen:

A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.

[A] key irony of automation is that by mechanising routine tasks and leaving exception-handling to the human user, you deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgement and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared when the exceptions do arise, the researchers wrote.

Dass dieser Effekt auch Entwicklerinnen betrifft (/via @thisismissem@hachyderm.io) –

We’re not becoming 10x developers with AI.

We’re becoming 10x dependent on AI. There’s a difference.

Every time we let AI solve a problem we could’ve solved ourselves, we’re trading long-term understanding for short-term productivity. We’re optimizing for today’s commit at the cost of tomorrow’s ability.

– macht die Zurückhaltung von KI-Unternehmen beim dogfooding (a.k.a. vibe coding) nachvollziehbar, zumal sich 10x developers auch mit traditionellen Mitteln simulieren lassen und künstliche Assistenten nur unter fähigen und konzentrierten Chefinnen –

The cool thing about writing code is that the computer is doing exactly what you tell it to do.

The cool thing about debugging code is slowly learning what you actually told the computer to do.

– gut arbeiten:

I’ve been saying it as a joke, but I’m now seeing what appear to be genuine sentiments that the trick to using AI coding assistants is to precisely describe the program you want.

Instant water. Just add water.

Update: Leider sind nicht alle Software-Hersteller so zurückhaltend –

There’s a blog post floating out there with the quote I don’t think I have ever seen so much technical debt being created in such a short period of time

Yeah, turns out AI-generated code you don’t understand creates quick wins but massive long term problems.

Slop it is the new ship it

– nicht alle Chefinnen ausreichend verständig und nicht alle coding assistants in der Lage, ihr Zimmer nach dem Spielen selbst aufzuräumen. Immerhin sind prompt engineers mittlerweile weniger gefragt.