MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline

Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by threatofrain on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @11:20AM (#45116844)

So it's a noisy abstraction. Programmers deal with that all the time. Whenever you bring in an outside library or dependency there's an implicit contract that you don't have to look underneath the abstraction. But it's noisy so sometimes you do.

Colleagues are the same thing. You may abstract business domains and say that something is the job of your colleague, but sometimes that abstraction breaks.

Still good enough to draw boxes and arrows around.

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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by delfinom on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @11:25AM (#45116899)

Noisy is an understatement, it's buggy, it's error filled, it's time consuming and inefficient. It's exact opposite of automation but great for job security.

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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by soraminazuki on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @07:56PM (#45121753)

It's unfortunately not great for job security either. Do you know how Google massively underinvests in support? Their support is mostly automated and is only good at shooing people away. Many companies would jump at the opportunity to adopt AI and accept massive declines in quality as long as it results in cost savings. Working people and customers will get screwed hard.

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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by soraminazuki on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @07:43PM (#45121633)

Competent programmers use well established libraries and dependencies, not ones that are unreliable as LLMs.

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