In addition to making people stupid, I wonder what affect will LLMs like Claude will have on programmers? How will new programmers learn if companies start using Claude?

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    6 hours ago

    No? An essay is a test, not a proof of intelligence. Humans tend to do the minimal effort on things they dislike. If the task is not something we are interested in, we will tend to do the minimum needed to accomplish the task. That’s not being stupid. What is stupid is forcing humans to do things they dislike.

    We are perfectly capable to spend our mind on tasks we are interested in. AI just makes it easier to be lazy on shit we don’t care about.

    This is about effort, not intelligence. The article, like 99% of news articles these days, finds a shocking headline that is not supported by research (no serious research will associate effort spent on an essay with intelligence), and is happy with the high number of people it pleases.