Great article. I have colleagues like this. I was on a call the other day with one of them. We were working our way through something. It got to a section where we needed to examine a data structure. It was a very simple task and all it needed was a basic for/foreach loop to parse the structure. His first suggestion was generating some code from CharGPT. I pointed out that it shouldn’t be needed, because of how easy it is. It took him a second or two but finally went “ah yeah it’s just a for loop isn’t it.”
Great article. I have colleagues like this. I was on a call the other day with one of them. We were working our way through something. It got to a section where we needed to examine a data structure. It was a very simple task and all it needed was a basic for/foreach loop to parse the structure. His first suggestion was generating some code from CharGPT. I pointed out that it shouldn’t be needed, because of how easy it is. It took him a second or two but finally went “ah yeah it’s just a for loop isn’t it.”
The outsourcing of cognition will result in workers being incapable of even the most basic tasks expected of their role.
The prompter in me needed to hear this. Bravo!
We all need a little prompting from time to time.