"We’re told constantly that computers are the future, both the future of work and the future of personal efficiency, yet the computer vendors seem intent on keeping users in a state of permanent illiteracy"
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Jon Randy
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Bangkok based discovery coder
"There's a certain kind of person who’s becoming extinct... Someone who actually understood the tools they used...
... nobody in the industry seems to care. In fact, most of them are actively celebrating the funeral while billing it as progress."
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
"... While new employees might seem to get up to speed much quicker, in reality they're merely offloading those arduous first weeks to a bot, hoping no-one else notices. In the process, they'll inject run-of-the-mill mediocrity all over the place, when what you were really hoping for was their specific perspective. Anno 2026, if a new employee produces an extremely detailed PR with lots of explanation and comments, doubt every word."
If "hallucination" describes AI seeing what isn't there, semantic ablation describes AI destroying what is. We're witnessing a civilizational "race to the middle" where the complexity of human thought is sacrificed on the altar of algorithmic smoothness
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
Makes a lot of sense. Probably also explains why my development style often clashes with others.
Self-taught people often don't realize it, but psychology says the way they solve problems is fundamentally different from most people
While you might think self-taught learners simply lack formal training, research reveals they've actually developed an entirely different cognitive operating system that makes them approach challenges in ways that traditionally educated minds rarely discover.
"What happens when our capacity to think critically erodes at scale? Who benefits when independent thinking becomes a rarity? And what kind of society are we left with when fewer people can imagine — and fight for — something better?"
https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/whats-at-stake-preserving-what-makes
"If we conflate the richness of biological brains and human experience with the information-processing machinations of deepfake-boosted chatbots, or whatever the latest AI wizardry might be, we do our minds, brains and bodies a grave injustice'
