ChatGPT users experienced up to a 55% reduction in brain activity and long term memory degradation compared to those working unaided

ChatGPT users experienced up to a 55% reduction in brain activity and long term memory degradation compared to those working unaided

Original study Link here

Another study Link here and excerpt below:

>AI helped participants better discern what’s real – and resulted in a 21% higher chance they would make the right call. But their unassisted performance, when reviewing new images without AI’s help, grew 15.3% worse in the experiment’s fourth week. “These results indicate that while AI may help immediately, it may ultimately degrade long-term misinformation detection abilities,” the study noted.

Not just chatgpt but AI coding is a relevant comparison as well. Loss of skills and thinking are even more prevalent with software development.

u/simple_explorer1 — 5 days ago
▲ 0 r/node

If hypothetically AI companies were to shut down their models or get banned by government completely, how much will software engineers be in demand again?

Yes, how much demand would there be for software developers if hypothetically AI were to completely disappear from tomorrow including the open source china or any model? 100%, 300% or nothing? Would it bring back the equilibrium in the IT job market? would questions like these from impacted Devs disappear

All the vibecoded projects left stranded which all of a sudden the confident builders won't even understand (yet wanted to sell it to their customers) and would need real engineers to make it work. Would need back real designer, developers of all skills, DevOps etc.

Companies who confidently reduced hiring at all levels, cut junior roles, QA, designers and even trimmed few infra guys, because 1 Dev with AI was 3x the developer they would have to go back in the market and beg for developers, designers and bunch of other skills to come back and support them. They will go from why do we need to hire/not respect the skills anymore (because anyone can prompt and get it done regardless of code quality) to not being able to function at all without the full capacity of devs.

Just curious to see what people here have to say so that we know the scale of damage caused by AI in the job market and software development as a career.

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u/simple_explorer1 — 20 days ago
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What's the point of open sourcing any library in LLMs era?

Opensourcing a library is already a thankless job but now it is monetised by LLM providers.

So, why would anyone opensource their hard work (assuming it is not vibecoded) only to be scraped and monetised by LLM providers like OpenAI and Anthropic via subscription and API costs?

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u/simple_explorer1 — 2 months ago

Which earbud would you recommend for under £100?

Did some research and few contenders are below:

  1. OnePlus Buds 4

  2. Galaxy Buds3 FE

  3. Sony WF-C710N

Phone, s26 plus. Open to considering other options which I don't know.

Important, active noise cancellation, great sound and mic quality, must fit well in ears.

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u/simple_explorer1 — 2 months ago
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DO NOT interview for Mimica.ai, truly torturous and LONG take home test and interview process

To name and shame bad companies, I recently interviewed with https://mimica.ai/ for a Staff fullstack developer role and it was a diabolical and unrealistic process and I was shocked to see that actual developers designed those process.

  1. Round 1, HR 30 mins
  2. Immediately I was given a take home test. It was react.js focused and it was ridiculously complex and long for an interview process and coding challenge.

Challenge:

Consume their tree API and and create a infinitely long and infinitely nested tree in the browser with editable leafs whose change of status should cause the immediate parents status recursively (and the parent should take into account all its direct children's) based on number of business criteria's and different colours. The acceptance criteria had many scenarios like below:

  • address all requirements listed above
  • performance matters - the frontend should be able to maintain a good performance even if the amount of data from the backend increases exponentially
  • UI: it should look exactly like the provided screenshots
  • handle API errors gracefully
  • make correct use of Redux, following recommended storage patterns
  • make correct use of React and its change detection function
  • correctly implement the logic to compute automatable statuses
  • make use of code design and architecture best practices
  • follow JS conventions for variable, function, and component names
  • Document design decisions, architecture, if you had more time what would you do and so on

And they told that it would take around 4 hours. I immediately told them that building this from scratch and satisfy every criteria along with documentation is not a 4 hours job and it would take significantly longer to come up with something they will like. But I stupidly did it anyways because they had good glassdoor reviews.

It took me several fulltime days to do it in a way which was truly scalable with everything they asked. I submitted the test (7 day cutoff) and they took almost 10 days to get back with a feedback that I scored 100% on the test.

  1. The next round was 1 hour live coding (no AI/LLM allowed which was fine with me) where i present my solution and then in last 40 mins they ask me to extend the solution. The interviewers were not welcoming and were going through motions like a meat grinder. In last 40 mins they said they expect me to solve 3 extensions. they pasted 2 page requirement for each challenge live which I had to read, understand, ask questions and then implement it all within 40 minutes.

Now 3 extensions in such complex code in 40 mins is a lot but I had no choice as I was already there. The first one was done in less than 10 mins and to that they said you architected in a way which kinda alreadysolves this problem and I was left thinking "so it should be a good thing right, why are they talking as if I commited a crime instead of praising my architecture?". They seemed visibly unhappy that I completed it effortlessly.

Then they gave the second 2 page question and it was not an extension but a complete 180 degree change of requirements which required a complete refactor for the entire core multi day exercise work that I did. They literally changed how all the parents should react and calculate based on all decendents and not just direct children's with a complete change of business criterias which itself took a while to understand and clarify from the 2 page requirements.

I told them this is basically a full refactor from the original challenge and that would change the whole core piece touching pretty much everything and expected me to complete in remaining 30 mins. It was pure torture because the whole assignment changed but now I had to do it in remaining 20 mins. I did as much as i could and we ran out of time and I couldn't even get to the last question.

Honestly what a wasted and unrealistic interview process to ask a candidate to do a full refactor but instead of few day/several hours, now do it in 20 mins and it tests nothing.

At the end of the interview they told me they will share the feedback sometime next week which means another 1 week delay and the initial coding test also took them 10 days to get back to me. If this goes through then there would be a ridiculously unrealistic systems design where they would ask me to design a really really complex software in 50 minutes and if that goes through (and another 10+ days to get the feedback) a chat with founders and if that goes through then the process ends.

After going through this unrealistic experience and already losing a month, I shot them the email that I am withdrawing from the process and don't have energy to go through it and potentially spend another month or 20 days in limbo if this round even goes through.

Companies truly treat candidates like dirt, especially in the current market and have no respect for candidates time. They think candidate are ONLY interviewing for them and will spend whole week of unpaid work just to do coding exercise for them. And companies won't even bother checking for 10 days and give a patchy review in the end.

And what's up with unrealistic interview process. 3 coding "refactors" masquerading as "innocent extensions" in 40 mins. Really? Do those engineers themselves code and entire massive refactor from groundsup in 20 mins themselves? how can they be this delusional.

Few years ago I got a coding exercise to create an entire bicycle sharing app with a realtime API and do FE/BE/Unit/Integration tests, documentation, deployed on AWS and bonus "scalable to millions of users". Time, maximum 6 hours. Truly delusional. I laughed and noped out. But i was shocked that so many candidates are doing because they truly need a job.

I just wanted to create this post to share my experience. Already have written glassdoor review for them but wanted to spark a conversation here as well because this is not a topic talked about much.

So, what are your experiences of bad companies and what crazy things have they asked you to build for free and their unrealistic expectations. It is time to name and shame companies so that they stop taking unpaid free work from developers under the name of "interview".

u/simple_explorer1 — 2 months ago
▲ 65 r/OpenAI

How many articles and videos will we see predicting "OpenAI Is FALLING Apart And Sam Altman Is Panicking". Tired of these clickbait titles

Yet another doomsday video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehYixQAzVsw

None of them have ever materialised and at this point the desperate youtube content creators should just say "I need money to live to so I will make another clickbait content to milk views on OpenAI's imminent collapse".

Not saying OpenAI or Anthropic or any AI company are having best time, but after 2 years of constantly hearing "OpenAI on the BRINK OF COLLAPSE and Sam Altman planning escape to NZ home" and yet when none of that happened in 2 years, how is that "Brink of collapse". Anytime they run out of content, these videos are a safe fallback to continue pumping video slop and gain views and money in return, pathetic.

Many Youtube content creators are truly the WORST who create garbage content simply because they have no real job and their only way to make money is to bait users into clicking since they don't have anything better to create on.

u/simple_explorer1 — 2 months ago

If 4p good without D-Log and straight out of camera footage without any edit?

Don't have time to edit each video and want a point and shoot experience. Is DJI osmo pocket 4p good as a point and shoot without any editing and no D-Log or I won't get the dynamic range without D-Log?

I heard insta 360 Luna ultra is better for point and shoot compared to 4P?

Also why is Luna ultra expensive compared to 4p when 4p is a more established product comparatively?

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u/simple_explorer1 — 2 months ago

With Claude and codex I am able to brainstorm and solve extremely complex problems but I am still not happy compared to pre AI time

Not vibe coding. But at my work, I am able to brainstorm and solve extremely complex problems than I otherwise would have been able to using Claude/codex (I have 15 years of experience as a Developer) but I am still not happy compared to pre AI era just 2 years ago, don't know why. I feel nothing, can't quite put my finger on why though. This is very uncanny feeling.

The thing is, everyone in my team is able to solve very complex problems using Claude so, at this point nothing feels like an achievement and truly unique.

This is in stark contrast to just 2 years ago when I was infact working on less complex problems than today but the sense of happiness and achievement was a lot because my work outcome was tied completely to my skills/seniority which was unique in my team and that was true for other team members as well.

Guess I am having a loss of professional identity for almost 1 year now that the software development is not esoteric anymore and anyone can get anything done. Don't know what to do about it and if the excitement will ever come back or is this the end of the road.

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u/simple_explorer1 — 2 months ago

Why don't "removed by Reddit filters" give a reason?

My post was removed by Reddit filters for no reason but there are similar posts on same topic on the same sub which area allowed. So why is my below post removed?

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u/simple_explorer1 — 3 months ago

Everytime I even go to another app and come back to an existing opened Google maps it resets the zoom back to default, why?

So inconvenient while on the go or driving etc. long time ago it wasn't the case and I don't know why Google thinks this is a good behaviour to reset an active map zoomed point back to default

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u/simple_explorer1 — 3 months ago
▲ 1 r/dji

Insta360 Luna ultra vs DJI osmo pocket 4pro, which one would you recommend?

I want to mostly shoot as point and shoot and not stress about editing and post edits that much. But that can change in future once I have enough time and will.

so,

  1. If point and shoot experience is the the primary reason, how goos is insta360 luna ultra vs DJI Osmo Pocket 4p in general? which one would you recommend

  2. If I am open to editing then which one?

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u/simple_explorer1 — 3 months ago

Insta360 Luna ultra users, would you recommend it? And in general how is it compared to DJI pocket 4pro?

I want to mostly shoot as point and shoot and not stress about editing and post edits that much. But that can change in future once I have enough time and will.

so,

  1. If point and shoot experience is the the primary reason, how goos is insta360 luna ultra vs DJI Osmo Pocket 4p in general? which one would you recommend

  2. If I am open to editing then which one?

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u/simple_explorer1 — 3 months ago
▲ 7 r/Vivo

Vivo x300 ultra owners, do you use 60hz refresh rate or 144hz or smart?

As the title? How does it drain the battery and does higher 144hz or smart refresh rate drain the battery faster or make the phone hot?

I have only used standard 60 hz refresh rate so far

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u/simple_explorer1 — 3 months ago

3 Weeks ago got M5 pro 16 inch macbook pro and the thermals/cooling are insane

Config: 16 inch M5 pro, 48GB

I run Qwen 35b MoE, Gemma4 31b dense LLM model and run it locally and yes after constantly using it for a few minutes makes the laptop hot but the fans are still not audible.

If i keep going for a while then i hear fan noise very slightly and the laptop is quite hot on the top chassis and bottom but the moment i stop using LLM even for say a minute or so, it cools RAPIDLY like crazy and goes back to "cool to the touch" extremely quickly.

The thermals and cooling are insane.

Note: This is my first ever M series mac and I have never used any M series mac ever, just heard all the good things about it for the last 7 years. I had 2019 16 inch intel i7 back and have forever used intel macs. I have never used any M series mac to know if this cooling capabilities was the same in m4 pro 16 inch as well or not. I assume yes but not sure if apple made changes to vapour cooling with M5 pro 16 inch this year.

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u/simple_explorer1 — 3 months ago

My team is finishing extremely complex tasks significantly earlier than planned every single sprint but when manager asks how was that possible, everyone pretends it was hard work and "senior" experience, but no one admits that they used Claude Code to write majority of code at blistering speed

Sprint after sprint we plan how long a list of tasks would take each dev to do and lock the sprint based on the effort and complexity of the work and, very regularly 2 weeks worth of work is getting done in around 1 week for 4 devs in my team. And every single time our manager, who is old school with 25+ years of experience, is surprised and asks how was that possible and the devs just say hard work and dedication and all the usual BS and no one is willing to admit that they are using Claude code to write 90% of their code.

My manager is a bit detached from "AI for code" and only hears about it from us or some of the team events. My company has a physical service as a main product and SaaS is just an enabler. It is not a "software" only company whose survival is purely software. So, AI is not that at the forefront of the company.

This time, we had a massive milestone of 8 weeks worth of work between 4 devs combined, and when the whole work was done in 3 weeks. During the daily scrum updates my manager was getting shocked everyday seeing how fast the implementation was progressing compared to the agreed timeline. At the end of 1st week he even called one of the dev MVP because he finished his 2 weeks tickets in 5 days. At the end of 3 weeks all 4 devs were done and when manager asked how was that possible, the same story, devs are just pretending that it is all hardwork and expertise which is allowing them to zip through the tasks but no one has admitted in front of manager that they used Claude Code to wrap up majority of work. Code review was often the bottleneck.

Has this happened in your team or devs in your team are more willing to admit to the managers that they are using LLMs to write most of the code and are more forthcoming about it?

Note: The company just provides a basic copilot subscription which runs out in few prompts. The devs are using their own personal AI to get the job done

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u/simple_explorer1 — 3 months ago
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Has anyone stopped using LLMs completely for coding and relying purely on themselves?

Curious to know. And why if so? I have 16+ years of experience as a dev.

It's been 1 week that I stopped completely and so far it is okay and luckily I can still code ;) (though got rusty initially) and that's what I enjoy doing, thinking about problems, architecting, writing tests, writing code, reviewing PR's etc. keeps my brain sharp and more confident.

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u/Gil_berth — 3 months ago