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Microsoft co-authored paper suggests the regular use of gen-AI can leave users with a 'diminished skill for independent problem-solving' and at least one AI model seems to agree (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Then again, isn't that what people used to do with StackOverflow?

Yes, one of the major issues with StackOverflow that answerers complained about a lot was the "XY problem.".

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem

Where you're trying to do X, but because you're inexperienced you erroneously decide Y must be the solution even though it is a dead end, and then ask people how to do Y instead of X.

ChatGPT drives that problem up to 11 because it has no problems enabling you to focusing on Y far longer than you should be.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I find that interesting because, sometimes AI actually does the opposite for me. It suggests approaches to a problem that I hadn't even considered. But yes, if you push it a certain direction it will certainly lead you along.