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I strongly agree with the concept that cognitive friction is the engine of learning.

First and foremost, it's an issue of "dependency": if you stop training the "muscle" of logic and reasoning, it gradually atrophies, just like unused physical muscles. You become dependent on external tools that replace a capability you once had yourself.

A historical example that brought about a similar shift is this: when the production process moved from the craftsman's mind and hands to the Fordist factory (and the assembly line), the skill of building things shifted from human craftsmanship to anonymous, structured processes.

Bit by bit, traditional artisans lost their knowledge and "know-how." Today, having a piece of furniture in our home depends on a massive production and supply chain; the "average" person no longer has the ability to build it themselves.

The exact same thing is happening to software.

We are the (now "former") software craftsmen.

> when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.

I completely agree! Perhaps it's simply for one reason: slowness.

Writing by hand slows down and the brain "breathes", calms down, and the waves of thought flow at their proper pace.

We aren't made to rush always: by slowing down, our brain also has time to better process thoughts and information, one at a time, and each one is given the "time it deserves."

Our brain works best when it's relaxed and has time to make all its connections.

Thinking is, first and foremost, an exercise in slowness.

(ps: I'm also left-handed, I wonder if this also affects the functioning of the brain...).

Yes, I do semantic chunk to better split the text into coherent chunks. I even use Llamaparse api (by Llamaindex) to parsing any type of documents, images or imported study material, with a very high quality results. Llamaparse is great!

> Artificial intelligence can do more every day, but deciding what it should do is up to us

> For artificial intelligence to benefit from distributed knowledge, it must itself be distributed.

I wish to highlight these two important concepts, with which I fully agree.

Artificial intelligence must enable all of humanity to excel and realize its full potential; it must not be used for the purposes of war, economic competition, or gaining dominance over others.

In other words: artificial intelligence must serve natural intelligence, not the other way around.

>if you control the ideas of your software, looking at the code itself is suboptimal and often pointless.

This requires developers to have absolute and unconditional Trust in the LLM. It's not easy to trust it completely to the point of completely ignoring the implementation details of the code.

In one of Salvatore's discussions, he mentioned that he hasn't even opened a single file of DS4. This is a courageous choice.

But the real question is: if the younger generation stops writing code, how are they supposed to develop that "forma mentis" (mindset) that allows them to reason about design and architecture? It's only by *writing* the code that you gradually internalize development and design patterns, specifically by clashing with the "brutality" of bugs and solving implementation problems.

P.S. I read Wohpe. It's fascinating how back in 2022 (I think?) Salvatore already wrote down many insights that have actually come true (including, for instance, the ban on "strong artificial intelligence"...). So I suppose that the future will touch the very development of humanity (like the Genesi project :) )

Loving the homage to the Whole Earth Catalog. The pivot from "infinite growth and optimization" to "computing within limits" and permacomputing is becoming less of a fringe philosophy and more of a practical necessity.

As hardware recycling and e-waste become bigger challenges, projects like the Damaged Earth Catalog remind us that modern software bloat is a choice, not an inevitability. We need more focus on resilient, low-power, and maintainable tech stacks.

> “Children will be given back their childhoods,”

As a parent, I completely agree. We need to protect children from the dangers of the completely uncontrolled "jungle" of social media. But above all, we need to give children back the right to experience a true, real childhood, made up of true friends, fresh air, friendships, and real relationships!

> If you are a junior developer, “learn SQL properly” is the most valuable 40 hours you can spend. Not a tutorial. Not an ORM. Actual SQL: joins, subqueries, window functions, query plans. That investment pays you back at every job, in every stack, for decades

This is the power of low-level reasoning.

Today, even for a junior developers, even if they have AI that solves syntax problems, SQL teaches you to reason and approach problems logically. Without any wrapper masking low-level logic.

It's something like the letters of the alphabet that form concepts: why should they change?

> ..idea anticipated centuries ago by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza: that our Soul could be a phenomenon of the same basic nature as any other phenomenon in nature.

Even the current Artificial Intelligence revolution is showing us that:

what was thought to be purely immaterial and intangible, that is, human abstract Reasoning and Thoughts, are actually tangible, physical, and even machine-reproducible.

What exactly is the "adaptive dynamic textbook approach"?

Examples?

> Generation effect: Accepting generated code and decreasing generating one's own code can skip the active processing that builds understanding.

Holy truth.

> The lower the baseline trust, the more sensitive people become to reputation signals.

This is the key: a person's reputation and the writer's responsibility.

But how will we learn to become sensitive to these social reputation signals?

For most of human history, access to a great education has been a function of where you were born and how much money your family had, and of a parents social class.

The best teachers, the best tutors, the best learning resources, they’ve always been concentrated in a small number of places and available to a small number of people.

In my opinion, the AI has the potential to genuinely disrupt that.

The direction of travel is toward a world where a kid in a rural area with a smartphone has access to a quality of personalized instruction that would have been unimaginable only one generation ago.