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NoCopilot · 26 Mar 2025

Most of my day is figuring out why the ai code didn't work this time rather than solving actually problems

nopelynopington on Hacker News

In the thread “The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf]”

Helped: Fast MVP creation for side projects.

Got in the way: Monotonous work; debugging AI code; code quality worse than spaghetti.

I feel like my critical thinking has taken a nosedive recently, I changed jobs and the work in the new job is monotonous and relies on automation like copilot. Most of my day is figuring out why the ai code didn't work this time rather than solving actually problems. It feels like we're a year away from the me part being obsolete. …