[abbadadda]

I really enjoyed how your words made me _feel._ They encouraged me to "keep fighting the good fight" when it comes to avoiding social media, et. al.

I do Vibe Code occasionally, Claude did a decent job with Terraform and SaltStack recently, but the words ring true in my head about how AI weakens my thinking, especially when it comes to Python or any programming language. Tread carefully indeed. And reading a book does help - I've been tearing through the Dune books after putting them off too long at my brother's recommendation. Very interesting reflections in those books on power/human nature that may apply in some ways to our current predicament.

At any rate, thank you for the thoughtful & eloquent words of caution.

[scld]

Doesn't Python weaken your thinking about how computers actually work?

[marcus_cemes]

You could make the same argument for any language. It still requires you to think and implement the solution yourself, just at a certain level of abstraction.

[miningape]

It may - but it doesn't weaken your ability to think computationally

[paddleon]

you mean by calling arrays "lists"?