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You use your brain for things like problem solving literally everywhere and there are myriad of possible high intensity brain exercises from video games to meeting new people.

The only thing that will 100% atrophy when not coding is coding skill.

panic about “ai brain fry” is overblown

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Been programming for about 30 years... this AI brain fry is very real. I would be very scared to take an interview right now...

To be honest I started to do leetcodes exactly because of that. They still require exams at interviews. But honestly it was quite fun.

I agree that coding problems are not particularly necessary for preventing atrophy, but it would be going to far to say that people are merely panicking.

I think maybe we're conflating strictly cognitive facilities, facilities that can be maintained through all sorts of means, with intellectual skills and habits that really are in danger of atrophy when we rely too much on AI.

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