AI will dumb down appraisers, as it has the coders who service it.

[Tom D]

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Software developers admit that AI is rotting their brains​

Just put the word appraisers where is says coders.

Here’s where it gets concerning: Anthropic’s research shows AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in coding mastery among programmers. Developers are forgetting basic APIs, losing mental models of their codebases, and struggling to navigate complex systems without AI crutches.

Junior developers arrive knowing how to prompt ChatGPT but unable to debug a simple loop. You know that sinking feeling when Netflix glitches mid-binge? That’s what happens when developers encounter AI-generated code that breaks in production-code they can’t fix because they’ve outsourced their reasoning.

The industry needs its reckoning moment. Until companies distinguish between useful AI augmentation and replacing human reasoning entirely, developers will keep watching their craft deteriorate while executives celebrate productivity metrics built on quicksand.

A recent study from MIT, conducted by Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, reveals that organizations are leveraging automation not merely to eliminate positions but particularly to diminish wages.

 

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Before the days of online data and access to MLS....
We were throwing darts....

 

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MSN

Software developers admit that AI is rotting their brains​

Just put the word appraisers where is says coders.

Here’s where it gets concerning: Anthropic’s research shows AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in coding mastery among programmers. Developers are forgetting basic APIs, losing mental models of their codebases, and struggling to navigate complex systems without AI crutches.

Junior developers arrive knowing how to prompt ChatGPT but unable to debug a simple loop. You know that sinking feeling when Netflix glitches mid-binge? That’s what happens when developers encounter AI-generated code that breaks in production-code they can’t fix because they’ve outsourced their reasoning.

The industry needs its reckoning moment. Until companies distinguish between useful AI augmentation and replacing human reasoning entirely, developers will keep watching their craft deteriorate while executives celebrate productivity metrics built on quicksand.

A recent study from MIT, conducted by Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, reveals that organizations are leveraging automation not merely to eliminate positions but particularly to diminish wages.

I half-heard a commentary earlier today that promised the capacity of AI in the not-too-distant future to dispense with the need for any future human involvement as the programs learn to enhance themselves. Kinda puts a new second hand on the timeclock of Moore's Law...