alt Hacker News> Remove LLM and 80 pct of people will have to jump to start.
Isn't the same true for every service and technology we start to rely on?
Remove GPS and people will have to figure out how to read maps again.
Remove search engines and people will have to figure out how domains work.
Remove Wikipedia and we have to go back to the library to check encyclopedias.
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Yes, you’re right. How many times a day do you really use GPS? Dependence on LLM is much bigger stake.
And much like society has rebuilt itself around, for example, the cellular phone and even the car, it’s rebuilding itself around LLMs. Yes, now you have to buy a thing you didn’t in the past. A bunch of capitalists have found a new way to build capital. I guess we get some value out of it too, but once it becomes built-in it can be hard to see it.
> Remove GPS and people will have to figure out how to read maps again.
It's not GPS, but turn-by-turn navigation. Remove that and people's spatial understanding of their environment improves significantly, and this improvement persists even long after the experiment, and they'll even be able to use turn-by-turn navigation better.
Which aligns with Anthropic's reports that people are able to use Claude better if they understand their own codebase better, and that increased Claude usage leads to reduced understanding of the codebase.
When society replaced walking as the primary mode of transportation with driving, people started going to the gym to keep their body in shape.
We should probably be training spatial perception (replaced by GPS), understanding of algorithms and data structures (replaced by coding agents), too.