This is not a doom & gloom moment for me. I believe strongly that folks in tech have pre-existing values and strengths that have not always been at the forefront but that are right for this moment: beliefs that anyone can succeed, that we can navigate change, that creativity can transform our lives
Here's my AI Skill Threat work which I now think was very prescient and a little ahead of its time:
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2gej5_v2
Here's an introduction to psychological affordances for developer experience folks:
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I dug out my big ereader last weekend to get through the anthropic paper. And now that I have, I thought I might read some more papers. AI Skill Threat has been on my tbr stack for A While™️. So I'm doing the thing. I might toot about it, we'll see. But one thing I have immediately noticed is the phrase "based on a systematic literature review, this study proposed...."
A phrase unlike anything that appeared in How AI Impacts Skill Formation