Mastodawn

So many developers have sent me that Anthropic skills/mastery case study that I realized I should ungate what I *already wrote* about this whole topic back in October: beginning principles to design workflows that work *with* your mind, not against it, & protect your problem-solving

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/cognitive-helmets-for-the-ai-bicycle-part-1/

Cognitive Helmets for the AI Bicycle: Part 1

I hear people name these three fears: will developers lose their problem-solving skills, learning opportunities, and critical thinking? One science-backed area can help: better metacognitive strategies.

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Cat Hicks Feb 4

We use a lot of simple analogies for learning that are subtly misleading. Like reducing all of complex behavior down to simplistic "dopamine loops", it's inaccurate. Good learning is not really about whether things are "always hard" or "always easy," it's about whether we're being strategic overall

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Todd Knarr

@grimalkina I've noticed something like this in creative arts: the business people want to reduce everything to a simple formula that if you follow it you get a blockbuster out of it. No matter how often it fails, they can't seem to figure out that there is no single formula. Is it something inherent in their personality, something that they developed so early it's ingrained in them?