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"Cognitive amplifier?" Bullshit. It demonstrably makes people who use it stupider and more prone to believing falsehoods.
I'm watching people in my industry (software development) who've bought into this crap forget how to code in real-time while they're producing the shittiest garbage I've laid eyes on as a developer. And students who are using it in school aren't learning, because ChatGPT is doing all their work - badly - for them. The smart ones are avoiding it like the blight on humanity that it is.
Yes. Then I come on Lemmy and see a dedicated pack of heralds constantly professing that they do the work of 10 devs while eating bon bons and everyone that isn't using it is stupid. So annoying
God, that's so frustrating. I want to shake them and shout, "No, your code is 100% ass now, but you don't know it because it passes tests that were written by the same LLM that wrote your code! And you have barely laid eyes on it, so you're forgetting what good code even looks like!"