I am on Android. I received a notification from Discord. I reached up to swipe it and dismiss it. Instead my finger brushed it wrong and I activated a button labeled "Mute th".

Then had to spend a few minutes figuring out what "th" was and how to undo what I'd done.

My extremely uncommon opinions are that the right-swipe-to-dismiss gesture has never been good; and that Android made a huge mistake making notifications interactive popovers instead of using the original ticker in the timebar.

Reminder: de-skilling as a trend in software engineering was already in progress well before LLMs.

Toxic productivity culture, people meeting badly-designed internal reward metrics, hopping jobs and never seeing the consequences of bad choices, plummeting quality, short-termism.

Sure LLMs add fuel to this fire, but I’m not at all convinced they’re causal.

If anything, their popularity seems more a consequence of the culture than cause.