Post #2189730

2026-04-27 01:11 UTC

@jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io 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.

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@jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io 2026-04-27 01:20

@headius@mastodon.social That's painful and outside my present experience. I wonder what a software job interview looks like these days?

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@rustedivan@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-27 08:24

@headius@mastodon.social @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io Yeah, I’m starting to feel that it’s discuss work away from the workstations, like by the coffee machines or at lunch. Even if colleagues are competent, they no longer carry the state of the software in their heads anymore.

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@jbowen@mast.hpc.social 2026-04-27 23:55

@headius@mastodon.social @jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io I immediately get annoyed when I see someone start a reply to a question with "Claude said..." I don't want to know what string of tokens the LLM free associated with the question, I wanted to know what the human I asked thinks.

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@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz 2026-04-28 07:14

@headius@mastodon.social When I see descriptions like this, a thing which comes to mind is that covid can cause brain damage. As well as LLMs diminishing the incentives to think, they might become more tempting to rely on as cognitive skills deteriorate from repeat infections. In other words, there might be more than one thing happening.

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