Re:Stop Building AI Tools Backwards
by yoyohello13 on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @02:39PM
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Mental skills (just like motor skills) also degrade with time. I can’t remember how to do an integral by hand anymore. Although re-learning would probably be faster if I looked it up.
Please don't think of this as moving the goal post, but back to maps and GPS: you're still doing the navigation (i.e. actual change in direction), just doing it with different tools.
The last time I dealt with integrals by hand or not was before node.js was announced (just a point in time).
Sure, you can probably forget a mental skill from lack of practicing it, but in my personal experience it takes A LOT longer than for a motor skill.
Again, you're still writing code, but with a different tool.
Re:Stop Building AI Tools Backwards
by jazzyjackson on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @05:02PM
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> I'm sure you still these people skill can do,
I wonder if you’d make this kind of mistake writing by hand
That's a skill that depends on motor functions of your hands, so it makes sense that it degrades with lack of practice.
> I can't no longer find my way driving without a GPS. Reading a map? lol
Pretty sure what that actually means in most cases is "I can go from A to B without GPS, but the route will be suboptimal, and I will have to keep more attention to street names"
If you ever had a joy of printing map quest or using a paper map, I'm sure you still these people skill can do, maybe it will take them longer. I'm good at reading mall maps tho.