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Re:Engineers who dismiss AI by carlosneves on Friday December 19, 2025 @09:14AM (#46326065)
You can always ask it to nudge you in the right direction instead of giving the solution right away. I suspect this way of using it is not very popular though.

This is not a new problem I think. How do you use Google, translator, (even dictionaries!), etc without "degenerating" your own abilities?

If you're not careful and always rely on them as a crutch, they'll remain just that; without actually "incrementing" you.

I think this is a very good question. How should we actually be using our tools such that we're not degenerating, but growing instead?

Re:Engineers who dismiss AI by aleph_minus_one on Friday December 19, 2025 @09:23AM (#46326159)
> How do you use Google, translator, (even dictionaries!), etc without "degenerating" your own abilities?

By writing down every foreign word/phrase that I don't know, and adding a card for it to my cramming card box.