Is AI making us dumb?
The Trap of Convenience March 2023. GPT-4 launched, and like many developers, I saw the potential immediately. Not the hype - the actual utility. I’d been writing Go for over a decade. Built distributed systems, debugged production nightmares, made every mistake worth making. I knew what good code looked like. But GPT was convenient. Why spend 20 minutes reading documentation when I could get an answer in 30 seconds? Why think through edge cases when AI could generate them? Why architect when I could prompt? ...