you know how there’s an increasingly large dataset showing that talking to LLMs a lot is like really really bad for your brain? there’s no ‘except for software developers’ carve-out. just fyi !
@jacquelinejacquelines 🌟 I see folks be like "it's not much different from copying and pasting from StackOverflow and updating the code to match".
Except it is because of the mental processes involved of evaluating code examples to find the right match and making those adjustments. Having copilot poop out a blob of code that already matches variable names erases that entire effort, which as minimal as it might seem, is still direct mental engagement.
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