I think also, people forget that open source projects need maintainers who are properly invested.

It’s difficult to imagine a meaningful future for a codebase that you spun up with AI and don’t actually understand yourself.

There’s an expectation of stewardship beyond “yeah I spent 2k on tokens”

Exactly. Lots of good stuff written in Rust!

Scroll the comments, we’ve had this exact argument.

People literally do struggle with basic maths also

This seems like a particularly expensive and resource hungry solution when we could just train more teachers and tutors.

While anecdotes are iffy sometimes, I think they’re alright in this context.

If people feel the need to reach for calculators rather than doing simple maths in their heads, that at least nods in the direction that the technology has impacted our skill development, or at the very least, made us inclined to use the tool over our own facilities.

But also, there’s emerging evidence of the issues with frequent AI use, so it seems pointless to split hairs.

Edit: just to clarify, I was agreeing with you in my first comment

I was saying the person you responded to was essentially saying “nuh uh!”

It has potential, though I wonder if that’s genuinely better than studying the old fashioned way.

It can definitely feel more dynamic, I’m not convinced the outcomes are provably better.

He’s not really citing anything, just making a claim that happens to align with his existing argument.

People certainly don’t seem better at arithmetic, and readily rely on calculators. Which isn’t necessarily bad, but it speaks to my argument that technology can, and does, cause skills to atrophy.

Can’t help but notice that in addition to being weirdly smug, all you did was show that someone else has come to similar conclusions.

Writing things down is a great way to offload the cognitive load of remembering things.

Fortunately, it’s hard to paywall writing. The same isn’t true for AI.

Maybe yeah. There’s certainly ways it could have played out better.

We teach arithmetic, but are people better or worse at it than before calculators were widely available?

I’m not sure what you mean by “if you recognise the skill as necessary or useful” - but taking a leap, I don’t see how that matters.

If I allow a machine to code for me, and don’t regularly use my own skills, when that machine becomes financially inaccessible, or just breaks down, it doesn’t matter how important I think the skill is - I’ve given it away.

We would still have to deal with the skill atrophy of AI use.

Even if AI is entirely green, publicly owned and widely accessible, it will negatively affect us.

This is almost entirely AI generated by the looks of it.

The code, the readme, the website.