On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. http://www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/4/5/114595093/ai_and_motivation.pdf
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@mikarv is that peer reviewed? Is that for a publication?
I certainly have lost motivation knowing I’m dealing with AI generated PRs, and code bases increasingly riddled with the stuff. Why even bother when that’s the level of quality that work now considers good enough?
@mikarv @genehack this appeals extremely heavily to my priors but I feel like I need to wait a week to see if @davidgerard is going to tell me it’s secretly an ad for something before getting too excited about its explanatory power
@mikarv this seems so very, very situational..
