alt Hacker NewsI don't think it's generalizable. The kind of person who copy and pastes from the AI is the kind who did the same from StackOverflow before. It's more compelling, and we probably see more of them because of it, but it's the same general thing.
The kind of person who insists on understanding things and working through the problem has always been rarer. It's not "humble", it's "inquisitive" and "persistent".
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In essence, you are correct. What I see with LLMs is how they will happily make up stuff, meanwhile you can pretty much exhaust SO, until you are forced to understand the problem you are having.
You don't have to be a certain person to fall into this trap, you just condition your brain to accept this workflow somewhere.
Pair this with day to day work stress like time and amount of tasks and you almost give in to a sort of addiction to deal with it all.
The difference between the two is that friction is learning.
the less friction the less growth.
So even if they copied from SO they would have better knowledge than an Ai user.
This isn’t speculation either, theres an MIT study which this is based on. https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt...
I'm seeing people who _used to be_ like that losing that understanding without realizing it's happening - they have a superficial idea of what the code is doing, enough to feel like they understand it, but the change is apparent when watching them handle something unexpected.