June 26, 2026 at 12:00 am
Comments posted to this topic are about the item I Want to Use My Brain
June 26, 2026 at 8:06 am
Years ago (pre-AI), I had a conversation with a Solutions Architect who had come up through the ranks of Java development.
They had joined a company where architects had to be able to demonstrate their designs. It couldn't be marketechture or just PowerPoint decks. They were enjoying it, but their actual comment about the Java coding side was "God, I'm rusty"!
It has been a year since I touched Python, and I know that feeling well. Use it or lose it.
Another friend commented that now that he is older, his brain is no longer the infinite sponge. He described the acquisition of new skills as one-on, one-off.
I can no longer write a collection class in C#. It's still technically possible, but the need to do so was removed by the addition of generics to the language. It would be a worthless skill.
With AI, I try to use it as a leg up, not a crutch. If I'm puzzling over a problem whose solution I will need to use over and over again, then I will spend my mental effort on it. There is value in doing so.
If it is a one-off problem/solution, I'll probably use AI because the value of me doing it is low. I still have to validate what AI has done, but I won't agonise over it.
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