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Re:Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without t... by Cagrikartal on Friday July 18, 2025 @12:51AM (#44601321)
curious, maybe one could go and spin up a study for using claculators instead of calculating manually and how it can lead to less x type of thinking and affect our abiltiy but maybe even if that is true(i am not sure maybe it is just in the domains we dont feel like we need to care much or etc) would people quitting clacutors a good thing for getting things done in the world ?
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Re:Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without t... by wongarsu on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:22AM (#44603444)
For me the thing that atrophied basic math skills wasn't the calculator, which was invented decades before I was born, but the rise of the smart phone.

Sure, calculators are useful in professional life and in high school math and sciences. But you still had to do everyday math in all kinds of places and didn't always have a calculator at hand. The smartphone changed that

I feel that's relevant in two ways: just like with math, a little bit of manual coding is going to be a huge difference compared to no manual coding, and any study like the one you propose would be hugely complicated by everything else that happened around the time, both because of smart phones and the coinciding 2008 crash

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