Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good

Post by theturtletalks » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 6:58 PM UTC

DrewADesign wrote: post #302

theturtletalks wrote: post #231

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2 types of people: People who use coding as a means to an end, producing a product People who enjoy process over product and coding is the enjoyable part, not the end product Company executives fall into bucket 1. Even if you love your cushy air-conditioned job, doesn’t mean the people above you don’t see you as a means to an end, a better product. Solo founders and small startups are in bucket 1 as well but that doe…

I think that’s a false dichotomy. I enjoyed coding but was more interested in the problems code could solve. Both were really important facets of the job. When I was a chef, I loved being creative with flavors and techniques, and giving people a new favorite aesthetic memory to file away. Losing one of those things would make the job not worth it to me even though I enjoyed both.

Post by beebmam » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 10:46 PM UTC

pixel_popping wrote: post #47

beebmam wrote: post #22

A skill which is now done better by a machine is no longer a skill, it is technology. It is just a matter of time before most of our logical and language reasoning skills are replaced by frontier model-agents, which will at some point be far superior (if not already) to human capability. So I totally disagree with this premise that human skills are being ruined by the use of AI technology. No, many human skills are b…

You miss the point, the point is that by using AI, our skills (let say "coding in Rust") are diminishing and even without reading this article, we can feel it to some extent already if we aren't lying to ourselves, especially very heavy AI users. We do however create new skills, skills that might be more relevant for the future, but still, it is controversial.

Post by crabsand » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 8:17 PM UTC

analognoise wrote: post #37

contingencies wrote: post #27

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If they can keep up. Unfortunately, we learn from previous technology shifts that the masses will always favor ease of use (to the point of infinite scroll 5 second videos dopamine puddle, or echo chamber social networking in lieu of critical media consumption), which does not bode well for the market for alternative hardware: one which is already expensive. I fear on-prem AI is likely to become as popular as on-prem…

Eh, this is our species first contact with that type of technology. A good number of voices see how deleterious these things are, and it’s all still very new. Future humans will tell parables about the evil tech bros and their silly obsessions, and the unequal accumulation of capital. This will be seen as a dark and stupid time, but I think we’ll persevere - the tech bro set is much weaker than they imagine, and cert…

Post by shymasen » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 9:19 AM UTC