I’m a little defeatist about it. I saw with my own 3 eyes how a junior asked ChatGPT how to insert something into an std::unordered_map. I tell them about cppreference. The little shit tells me “Sorry unc, ChatGPT is objectively more efficient”. I almost blew a fucking gasket, mainly cuz I’m not that god damn old. I don’t care how much you try to convince me that LLMs are efficient, there is no shot they are more efficient than opening a static page with all the info you would ever need. Not even considering energy efficiency. Utility aside, the damage we have dealt to developing minds is irreversible. We have convinced them that thought is optional. This is gonna bite us in the ass. Hard.

How is it more efficient than reading a static page? The kids can’t read. They weren’t taught phonics, they were taught to guess the and with context clues. It’s called “whole language” or “balanced reading”

Literacy rates are on a severe decline in the US, AI is only going to make that worse.

Over half of Americans between 16 and 74 read below a 6th grade level (that’s below the expected reading level of an 11 year old!)

We have the same problem with literacy here in Sweden. It’s unnerving to think that these kids will need to become doctors, lawyers and police officers in the future.

Sweden of all places? What happened in the last decade that Sweden’s slowly losing the fame of country to follow in social aspects?