No, and yes. It depends on how you use it. If you use it to research and get suggestions on how to write code better then you become smarter. If you use it to do everything for you then you become dumber. There is an effort sandwich and you don't want to be in the middle.
Effort into some code, pasting some of it in to get feedback (not always right but its no different than human feedback in that regard), effort assessing that feedback and incorporating only the good suggestions.
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Ask AI to generate something. Effort identifying feedback to give it. Give feedback. It maybe produces something better. Use it if better. If it isn't argue with it more. <-This makes someone dumber.
I used to think AI was really smart at a few things and then somehow even though AI has gotten better I found I'm a better programmer than it. Then I realized I became a better programmer in part (only in part) because of it. This is because I've made a point of using strategy I. Any strength it has over me I learn.
This is also why I have no interest in using cursor or an AI that has my whole code base. I want to query it and learn. The act of identifying what code needs fixing without AI (something AI couldn't do for you very well anyway), figuring out the minimal context of code needed to convey the problem to something, and the reading comprehension step of understanding and extracting the relevant parts of a solution into a different body of code means you had to actually understand something in the process.
Anyways that's code. I'm not sure how AI impacts intelligence in the other things people use it for.
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No, and yes. It depends on how you use it. If you use it to research and get suggestions on how to write code better then you become smarter. If you use it to do everything for you then you become dumber. There is an effort sandwich and you don't want to be in the middle.
Effort into some code, pasting some of it in to get feedback (not always right but its no different than human feedback in that regard), effort assessing that feedback and incorporating only the good suggestions.
Vs
Ask AI to generate something. Effort identifying feedback to give it. Give feedback. It maybe produces something better. Use it if better. If it isn't argue with it more. <-This makes someone dumber.
I used to think AI was really smart at a few things and then somehow even though AI has gotten better I found I'm a better programmer than it. Then I realized I became a better programmer in part (only in part) because of it. This is because I've made a point of using strategy I. Any strength it has over me I learn.
This is also why I have no interest in using cursor or an AI that has my whole code base. I want to query it and learn. The act of identifying what code needs fixing without AI (something AI couldn't do for you very well anyway), figuring out the minimal context of code needed to convey the problem to something, and the reading comprehension step of understanding and extracting the relevant parts of a solution into a different body of code means you had to actually understand something in the process.
Anyways that's code. I'm not sure how AI impacts intelligence in the other things people use it for.