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If they use LLM for writing papers, they probably use it for other things as well. I have seen so many instances of adult actually skipping the step of "whys" and "whats" and go straight to "ask the LLM and we trim backwards".

Its basically adults producing texts of slop messages to each other. It is actually atrophying.

You might be in a circle of people that wants to know "why" things work. For example, when there's a bug, we go through several processes of:

There's a bug...why does it happen? What were they thinking when they wrote this? How to prevent this from happening?

This is true even for simple bugs, but nowadays you just vibe code your away into the solution, asking the AI to fix it over and over without ever understanding how it works.

Perhaps its just the way things are. I mean who uses their head to do calculations nowadays? Who knows how to create a blurring effect in physical drawing?




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