OK, so I know it's nice to be able to point at the recent study by Anthropic that showed LLM users showed "reduced mastery" and laugh and say that even their own research shows it's crap. But reduced mastery is a feature not a bug.
Technology as deployed by capital is motivated by one thing profit (glossed as "efficiency") and the easiest way to do that is to reduce the cost of labour. If you don't need mastery to produce code, then you don't need to pay a premium for people with that mastery.
@petrichor "If you don't need mastery to produce code, then you don't need to pay a premium for people with that mastery."
This is a fallacy, tying knowledge to capital. Free software developers are scratching their heads over "need to pay" or feeling insulted.
It is also predicated upon an invalid perception of removal of cost. Transferring the cost from the direct user of knowledge to the technology cost to society.
@lwriemen Yes, that was my point. Capital never sees a cost that it doesn't want to externalise