2026-09-13 18:30 UTC
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In June, a commentary [4] wrote
"Evidence suggests that [ #genAI]-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields"
citing a study [5] "of physicians in Poland who specialize in #endoscopy [...which] shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities"
While a co-author of the study [5] warns that "more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon", he also notes
"There is no established solution against #deskilling right now"
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@dderigo@hostux.social 2026-09-13 18:36
18/ The commentary cites another study (randomized controlled trial involving #SoftwareEngineers, still preprint ahead of #PeerReview) [6] to "investigate whether skills are being lost in the field of #ComputerScience" [4] This early study appears to suggest how #genAI-assisted "participants did particularly poorly on questions that required them to diagnose #errors in the code, which suggests that they had failed to learn the concepts behind the #code that they had just produced"