Cognitive Dependence

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Very quick post, forgive the brevity. We know that using AI as a cognitive scaffold can result in skill atrophy. The science is still a little indeterminate, but there's enough evidence to show that phenomena like cognitive surrender and dependence can set in with extended offloading (delegating intellectual labour to AI). So my question is the exent to which this is happenign to SWEs and how this will affect model development. If we accept the science an

Published 26 Jun 2026
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