AI, Skills & Critical Thinking
What leaning on AI does to the people using it — skills that fade, attention that shrinks, knowledge that gets harder to trust — and practical ways to push back.
12 posts on this topic, newest first.
Epistemological corrosion created by machine induced semantic replication entropy
Claude Lawfare
Local AI Will Save Us All (The Math Says So, Trust Me)
Leading With "I Don't Know"
Pair Programming against Agentic Dementia
Counter Declining Long-Term Attention Span caused by LLM usage
The Quiet Crisis: How is AI Eroding Our Technical Competence?
The Unseen Walls: My View from the YouTube Sidelines
The AI Double-Edged Sword: Are We Trading Critical Thinking for Convenience?
Agentic Dementia
The AI Coding Craze: Are We Dumbing Down, or Just Speeding Up?
Taking LLMs to (code) town: parsing robots.txt featuring RFC 9309