I have seen first hand that AI is turning senior devs into junior devs. The easy option of just vibing things out is just too seductive for most, and I see now most PR comments "from" reviewers are just copy pasta (or posted directly by) their agents. This is not a good way to train your brain, and it feels like there is less and less desire to seek correctness instead of just passing code through more rounds of AI review, which by virtue of how LLMs work never gives you the same result any pass.
People used to know in very clear detail what they just worked on, what key decisions were made, and why they were made. The memory would hold for at least 3-6 months and longer with a quick refresh. Now people hardly understand in detail what they pushed out just yesterday.
Think of how many times you have been asked "oh yeah what did we do about x in the past before?". Now that question will be greeted with blank stares. "I'll ask Claude".
OP here, this video is a great evidence-based analysis of what goes wrong when using generative AI in your everyday interaction with the world. It uses examples from the youtuber t3dotgg, and shows how overly automating seemingly "hard tasks" (on the example of writing github comments) are potentially creating "brain rot". The video argues, that attention loss can already be observed in the developer community.
wasabinator 6 minutes ago
People used to know in very clear detail what they just worked on, what key decisions were made, and why they were made. The memory would hold for at least 3-6 months and longer with a quick refresh. Now people hardly understand in detail what they pushed out just yesterday.
Think of how many times you have been asked "oh yeah what did we do about x in the past before?". Now that question will be greeted with blank stares. "I'll ask Claude".
opengears 36 minutes ago