D and AI

[matheus]

On Sunday, 15 February 2026 at 05:41:55 UTC, Daren Scot Wilson 
wrote:
> ...
> This is good!
> ...

I understand what you're saying, and just yesterday I saw a video 
of an ex-micro$oft employer "creating" a notepad and Basic 
compiler for PDP-11 (With some restrictions) using generative AI 
in less than an hour, in fact he just asked and then the program 
was done.

For many this is awesome, but I wonder about the future, where I 
live (South America), we have this education problem where the 
majority of the population can't do basic math by hand.

Since everybody is asking and getting the results done I wonder 
if the general population will get dumber in the future.

I saw in another thread an user saying this is good so people can 
do meaningful things instead wasting their time with menial ones, 
but again is like people with calculator in hand but can't figure 
out formulas, or even when going to a supermarket they can't know 
for sure if they are being scammed or not by the prices. Even if 
they have the calculator in their hands but if they can't operate 
it they are fried.

In fact I saw some videos where people ask generative AI if they 
are being scammed or not. So they can't think by themselves 
anymore!?

I really think unless you're are in a research are or in a good 
position etc. Current dev as we saw is over.

I'm still hesitating to use AI daily and to not have my brain 
rotting. Last time I used beginning of last year, it wasn't a 
very pleasant experience. The code generated needed a lot of 
fixes, but I saw an improvement lately, and it's indeed getting 
better really fast.

Finally I'm not complaining by myself since I'm already retiring 
from this industry (As worker), but from the young ones I'd be 
very scary.

Matheus.