[bambax]

One problem is that when people delegate tasks to AI, they don't themselves learn anything from doing the task -- not just in the general sense of personal improvement, but in the very concrete sense of "what is it that was produced".

Before AI, when someone showed you a presentation or an Excel sheet, even if it was complete horseshit that they had made up, they knew what was in it: they knew more about it than you, by definition.

Now, not so much; people output things they know nothing about, and when they show it to you they are discovering it just as you are.

This is novel, and discomforting.

[fchicken]

I have a tech support buddy who, while good, allows himself more arrogance than his skills deserve. I asked him what CRC errors, and he said to ask AI, kindly providing me its output:

> CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) errors on Wi-Fi indicate that data frames were corrupted during transmission, often caused by high electromagnetic interference (EMI), physical layer issues, or faulty hardware. They cause packet loss, slow speeds, and intermittent connectivity. Common solutions include replacing cables, reducing interference, updating drivers, and adjusting radio power

This is all well and good except: read the prompt carefully. It never actually says what CRC errors are. This is the average AI user: literally work on, build, and fix things without the slightest clue about what it is you're actually working on.

He makes >6 figures lol

[4b11b4]

Yes, the "desirable difficulties" are gone in many areas

Honestly, quite a tragedy for many. Myself, I have to be constantly fighting against this to slow myself down

[gitaarik]

But you also spend less time on those tasks, allowing you to do more of those tasks. And if you still spend the same amount of time, and use AI as am assistant, and do review the AI's work, then you can actually learn from it faster.

But I understand that many people don't do that and just finish their task with AI and then don't do anything anymore.

[epgui]

This drives me absolutely nuts.

[Shocka1]

It's from the ground up at this point. I'm in my last Master's course at a very well known and expensive private university in the Northeast. When we have presentations it sometimes feels like maybe 10 to 20% of us actually know the material in our slides. I'm all about generating templates and whatnot, but when every bullet point has an em hyphen and you are stumbling over your words, reading the sentences verbatim and having a hard time expanding on them... That is not someone worthy of being a Master in their field IMO. But these people pay full tuition so I'm assuming they graduate and are all working amongst us.

[andrei_says_]

The equivalent of a student copying their homework.

Schools are not publishing houses for homework assignments. Struggling with the homework is the process training the student.

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