"Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking." - that's just the Dunning-Kruger effect
I feel like it applies to becoming an adult as well: you get less constrained, too many options in almost every decision you have to make, so it's easy to stop bothering and go with the flow
Might have a lot of potential, but you need some kind of a showcases right at the start, highlighted to show what is possible. I clicked around and first worlds I saw were very basic. Maybe if users saw something incredible right at the start, they'd be motivated to be more creative
that is exactly what they would do, otherwise it wouldn't pass any review. Unless this was generated and reviewed by AI during their experimentation phase, but I doubt it very much.
Anyone using Julia outside university settings? I tried to get into it around 5 years ago, and it felt good, was conceptually interesting, but haven't seen any adoption or talks anywhere outside the academia
Author's argument about lower quality of vibecoded software (the brush example) is just a matter of iteration. We can't assume they won't catch up at some point
Doesn't this assume that humans stop trying to understand problems and AI-provided solutions? Yes, the field is going to change and will require certain rethinking of mathematicians' motivation, but what stops humans from keeping to work on problems they want to solve and understand? The fun from math comes not from solving cancer, but from understanding something new with every approach you take