Just a few years ago we had that running joke “pasting code from stackoverflow”, which describes a coder, who just find and copy-paste the code – the “right” answers – without any understanding whatsoever.
It is well-understood at the level of cognitive neuroscience, that skipping the part of “doing it yourself” (and so never getting these necessary 10,000 hours of a deliberate practice) basically makes us dumber (lots of supporting MIT studies, google them) and ultimately wastes out time, the only irreplaceable and the most valuable resource we ever had.
Now the whole AI industry is creating for us a premium slop for copy-pasting/ (without any accompanying understanding) so that we can appear competent and clever.
It is also the age of deceptive appearances, especially on social media short videos, which grossly distort reality, polluting and damaging your brain’s inner “map” (representation) of it.
This is has already been cleverly “leveraged” by Indians, some of whom are openly bragging that “I just can solve any technical problem with AI” (without any understanding whatsoever). Yes, I see how.
google “Soham Parekh”, especially his “quotes” as screenshots.
Why, yes, Indians usually have great social skills, because the whole culture, all the way back to the ancient traditions, is social-skill based, founded on social interactions, so-called “soft skills” in the West. (Try to watch these Indian movies with long gazes accompanied with dramatic music).
So, yes, those “startups” who want to pocket inventor’s money by hiring cheapest offshore labor remotely for something like $5/hour – you got exactly what you’ve paid for.
Nowadays they will paste for you directly from Grok and Gemini, completely bypassing the StackOwerflow.