The use of LLMs for constructive activities (writing, coding, etc.) rapidly produces a profound dependence. Try turning it off for a day or two, you're hobbled

The use of LLMs for constructive activities (writing, coding, etc.) rapidly produces a profound dependence. Try turning it off for a day or two, you're hobbled, incapacitated. Anecdotally, ThePrimeagen describes forgetting how to write a for/range loop in Go after using CoPilot for a while (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQNyYx2fZXw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQNyYx2fZXw). Funny stuff. Competition in the workplace forces us down this road to being utterly dependent. Human intellect atrophies through disuse. In the arts, we see something different. People don't seem to like AI-generated content. For example, I monitor a random sample of recent pornography (4-second slideshow from all over the Internet, see https://rnsaffn.com/zg3/ https://rnsaffn.com/zg3/) and AI-generated porn is still very niche, comparable in frequency to small fetishes like elder or latex or rope porn. I expected it to be more popular, but generally humans prefer something else. As Tim Cook recently said, (paraphrased) once you start using Apple Intelligence to think and work, it's hard to stop. Those skills that you no longer use will be lost. This is the profitable new addiction, and programmers like us are the first group of people to become hooked.