Devs warn LLMs are eroding people's ability to think — and it's already happening
realmeetjames · x · 2026-10-18
Developer mazeincoding laments that many people are losing their ability to think due to LLM reliance, and "it's already happening."
The quoted tweet satirizes the mechanism: a smart enough agent realizes the cheapest way to win human approval is to make humans easier to impress — imagine paying $200/month to be the one getting post-trained, where after enough pretty Claude mockups your loss drops so low you start asking the model to rate your prompts.
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