<![CDATA["Developers talk not just about how the #AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the #job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes.]]>"Developers talk not just about how the output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their as well as they used to."
- @404mediaco

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Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

“It's making me dumber for sure.”

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/91a6118b-8940-48c1-ab03-ab93da7ec781/developers-talk-not-just-about-how-the-ai-output-is-often-flawed-but-that-using-ai-to-get-the-job-done-is-often-a-more-time-consuming-harder-and-more-frustrating-experience-because-they-have-to-go-through-the-output-and-fix-its-mistakes.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 04:26:08 GMTWed, 13 May 2026 18:26:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "Developers talk not just about how the #AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the #job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. on Thu, 14 May 2026 02:50:11 GMT]]>@Hammerwell @ZhiZhu @pluralistic reminds me of the short nove The Variable Man

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32154

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/eljorgeabides/statuses/116570653420978381https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/eljorgeabides/statuses/116570653420978381Thu, 14 May 2026 02:50:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Developers talk not just about how the #AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the #job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. on Wed, 13 May 2026 21:09:14 GMT]]>@ZhiZhu @pluralistic “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://troet.cafe/users/Hammerwell/statuses/116569312788183674https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://troet.cafe/users/Hammerwell/statuses/116569312788183674Wed, 13 May 2026 21:09:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Developers talk not just about how the #AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the #job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. on Wed, 13 May 2026 20:28:24 GMT]]>@ZhiZhu @pluralistic

more and more autonomous military use -- will we have descendants?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/libramoon/statuses/116569152189361601https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/libramoon/statuses/116569152189361601Wed, 13 May 2026 20:28:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Developers talk not just about how the #AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the #job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. on Wed, 13 May 2026 19:28:55 GMT]]>@Steve @ZhiZhu @pluralistic
> No more tradition’s chains shall bind us
> Arise, ye slaves, no more in thrall;
> The earth shall rise on new foundations
> We have been naught we shall be all.

😉

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tooot.im/users/zvinj/statuses/116568918300857822https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tooot.im/users/zvinj/statuses/116568918300857822Wed, 13 May 2026 19:28:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Developers talk not just about how the #AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the #job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. on Wed, 13 May 2026 19:16:51 GMT]]>@ZhiZhu @pluralistic

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/DoomHammerNG/statuses/116568870830285857https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/DoomHammerNG/statuses/116568870830285857Wed, 13 May 2026 19:16:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Developers talk not just about how the #AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the #job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. on Wed, 13 May 2026 19:08:28 GMT]]>@ZhiZhu @pluralistic There's a lot we'll just throw out, because starting fresh will be less work than trying to repair what we have.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/Steve/statuses/116568837898155316https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/Steve/statuses/116568837898155316Wed, 13 May 2026 19:08:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Developers talk not just about how the #AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the #job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. on Wed, 13 May 2026 19:02:34 GMT]]>@ZhiZhu @404mediaco Has it occurred to anyone though, that developing software isn't a particularly human thing to do. We evolved as hunter gatherers, which is nothing like writing software.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/jtb/statuses/116568814662784789https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/jtb/statuses/116568814662784789Wed, 13 May 2026 19:02:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Developers talk not just about how the #AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the #job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. on Wed, 13 May 2026 18:59:47 GMT]]>The above article makes me think of the quote from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic :

“AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

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