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@brandonscript @timbray I'd like to see how your workflow is structured.

@jmeowmeow You're a few steps behind what I'm seeing. I can't even have conversations about how to build a system or implement an idea with some people if they aren't asking Claude what to do. They gave up the small decisions, then the medium ones, and now they can't even think about problems without an LLM prompting *them*. It's like a prion disease carving away bits of their brains until nothing is left.

@brandonscript @timbray I'd like to see a setup where I still do the work of coding and the AI is solely a pairing partner. Delegating the entire process to an LLM including the actual construction removes all of my agency from the process, and delegating small decisions to LLM eventually leads to delegating all of them. If you don't exercise your critical thinking abilities you will lose them. Too many developers are choosing that path.

@dpp Those decisions about system architecture are exactly what I see people delegating now. Once you give up decisions about how to build the small pieces, the large pieces come next. The sickly sweet taste of not having to make a decision yourself infects the entire thought process.

Perhaps you will be able to avoid that slow decay by only letting LLMs focus on the small pieces while you decide how they should fit together. That's not the trend I'm seeing.

@rose If time and age takes away capabilities and AI helps bring them back, I'm all for it. But choosing to use AI when you are capable of doing it yourself is basically opting into dementia. Why read anymore, let AI summarize it? Why produce thoughtful messages for friends, let AI speak for you? Why do any creative activity at all...they're too hard, just let AI create for you?

There's a disturbing trend of developers I've known for years now suddenly being unable to discuss even basic aspects of software development. They have become so dependent on LLMs, they can't even describe how to design a system anymore. Feels like losing friends to dementia.