Skill Erosion

“My ability to spell certain things has kind of went down because I'm just so used to, oh, okay, it sees what I'm trying to do and it fixes it for me.”

“Yeah, I think that could happen. You know, instead of going through material myself, notes and sort of collating myself and thinking that out. Yeah, I could see that skill going downhill. It's almost like my handwriting skills gone downhill as I type more and more for text. I noticed that dexterity isn't quite what it should be sometimes.”

“I can see the same sort of parallel. Yeah, for sure. And that's not a good thing, especially for aging populations. You know, they need to keep that brain strong.”

“Because we're using it to build at least beginning screens or wireframes, I'm not improving my craft as I used to. I'm not designing in Figma, previously Sketch at our company, as frequently as I used to. So, I feel like I might be losing some of my skills.”

“I don't know if I've had design failures per se yet, but I will say getting down a rabbit hole with it and then having it not take my prompts. But again, that's not something that I necessarily had before. I wouldn't say. Well, I guess maybe losing my edge with actual design. I mean, it was never my forte to begin with, but because we're using it to build at least beginning screens or wireframes, I'm not improving my craft as I used to. I'm not using Figma design. I'm not designing in Figma, previously Sketch at our company, as frequently as I used to. So, I feel like I might be losing some of my skills.”

“I spent 10 years working in neuroscience. And so, just understanding the development of neural pathways, I know for a fact we are weakening those neural pathways by shortening the process. Like, learning how to ride a bike, you don't forget, because it requires so much motor skill and functioning that that pathway never gets weakened. I mean, it can get weakened, so you're unsteady on the bike, but you still know how to ride it at the end of the day, because it requires so much from your body in each piece. So when you're taking all these complex tasks and shortening them down to just asking one question, you're shortening that path. I just know it's happening. So yeah, I am personally concerned about that. And I think people in the field of neuroscience are really concerned about it.”