alt Hacker NewsI have a slightly different take on deskilling argument. I don't think AI is going to deskill. Someone who has spent 10 years working in any field before AI is not going to get lose too much. Yesterday I sat down to solve a medium hackerrank problem without any assistance (code complete, AI etc) and it took me 10-15 minutes to get into that mode but i was able to do it comfortably just like how i used to do it pre-chatgpt. AI might unskill the younger workforce which will enter the field, aka they will never learn the way we did.
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alex_suzuki • today at 12:47 PM
i wonder if you’ll still feel the same way in two years. knowledge decays slowly and the suddenly, at least for me.
The term applies to the skills required from workers, not to how the skills of an individual evolve over time. The argument is that AI lowers the skill requirements for software development, and therefore less skilled workers will displace the more skilled ones because they are cheaper, as (allegedly) happened in front end over the past decade.