“From June to August, Anderson livestreamed himself on YouTube as he built a software product using AI without writing a single line of code himself. … As he let AI build his app, features appeared in minutes. Progress came fast. But as the livestream progressed over a few weeks…the pace slowed. The back-and-forth with the chatbot stretched from minutes to hours. … And fixing problems turned into a "never-ending wrestling match," he said.”
 —Thibault Spirlet
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-deskilling-impact-on-worker-skills-productivity-2026-3
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The Great AI Deskilling has begun

AI is boosting output while quietly chipping away at the skills behind it.

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@janhoglund Get hooked fast and then watch everything come crashing down. Sounds like a run of the mill addiction.
Meanwhile the rest of us are slowly being gaslit and ignoring the canary in the coal mine.