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AI Is Making Developers Dumb
LLMs are making software engineers dumber.
It’s pretty embarrassing to look back and think about how I was eroding the knowledge I had gathered just because I wanted a short term speed increase. You also lose the chance to learn about concepts like memory management or data oriented design, because Copilot just gives you some code that it thinks might work, instead of you researching topics and understanding nuances. I recently started playing around with Zig, and I constantly make notes on things that I am learning about the language, especially considering that it’s my first time dealing with memory management.
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