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    14 hours ago

    Only in the sense using a calculator makes you worse at long division. You’re still doing math.

    Every pearl-clutching article like ‘doctors got worse at spotting cancer when we gave them a tool and then took it away’ is only measuring before and after. None of them seem interested in asking: how much more cancer did they find, with the tool?

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        12 hours ago

        Weird how software engineers are better at ‘being replaced’ than novices. They seem to get better results by knowing what it’s supposed to be doing.

        What a funny coincidence.