I still do LeetCode problems occasionally. It feels weird to write code and work through complex logic manually again, but I think it's more crucial than ever these days. It's like physical exercise. If you don't use your brain and keep challenging yourself, your problem-solving skills will eventually atrophy.
When I read things like this I have a mixed feeling of not knowing wether I’m sad cause I’d like to have time to do leetcode too, or wether I’m simply too anxious to let the productivity improvement spiral go and chill a bit.
People exercise for sport because we've automated away much of manual labour, so if you don't exercise, you look and feel like a string bean or a watermelon.
The AI age is trying to automate away our thinking, which runs the risk of making our brains look and feel like the same way as our bodies if we don't actively try to use them.
In the case of exercise, the majority of people don't pursue it in a somewhat post-labour era. I'm certain we'll see even less mental exercise in a post-thinking era. And it's deeply unsettling to think about how that will play out if we don't wake up and put a bit more mandatory thinking into the way we live with AI.
Very interesting that the author's solution space is "keep doing tons of parallel stuff, but with different tooling" instead of... "do less parallel stuff (and provide stronger attention)".
https://web.archive.org/web/20261108193851/https://sergeykuh...
I still do LeetCode problems occasionally. It feels weird to write code and work through complex logic manually again, but I think it's more crucial than ever these days. It's like physical exercise. If you don't use your brain and keep challenging yourself, your problem-solving skills will eventually atrophy.
The AI age is trying to automate away our thinking, which runs the risk of making our brains look and feel like the same way as our bodies if we don't actively try to use them.
In the case of exercise, the majority of people don't pursue it in a somewhat post-labour era. I'm certain we'll see even less mental exercise in a post-thinking era. And it's deeply unsettling to think about how that will play out if we don't wake up and put a bit more mandatory thinking into the way we live with AI.
The only thing that will atrophy when not coding is coding skill.
panic about “ai brain fry” is emotional and doesn’t stand up to scrutiny