EarthshineThe deskilling effect of LLM use is real. Figuring out how to do things for yourself is the cornerstone of the entire learning process, and if you bypass it, everything else you 'learn' about how to do something with LLM help has no solid foundation in understanding that is necessary to change, adapt, and apply that knowledge in the future. It may seem harmless to 'skip ahead' with LLMs here and there bc 'you don't need to learn that', but it builds a habit of not understanding anything.
As someone who has spent their whole life trying to skill up and get better at things so that I can have valuable skills for the future, I can tell I am losing something of value every time use it in any capacity. Not only do these shortcuts introduce uncertainty and force reliance on the model to do things right, but they remove your own agency and thinking from the process, effectively rendering you obsolete.
This is the real goal of this push to force AI on everyone: devalue human skills to the point they're redundant and can be removed entirely. The irony of it is that it only works *if people use it*, and the people using it are the ones who will suffer the most from it. They're conning you into putting yourselves out of work under the false pretense that if you don't get on board with it, you'll be left behind. LLM users are in for a rude awakening when they realize they were the marks all along.
Duchamp Pérez@earthshine the more aware know they are losing skills, and some of them get upset when they learn one isn't using them