Adults Lose Skills to AI, Children Never Build Them: Developers 17% Worse After Full AI Delegation — 92 Points on HN
Psychology Today / Hacker News·medium signal
Psychology Today article argues AI deskilling is categorically different for children vs adults: adults offload skills they already have, but children never form independent reasoning at all. Cites research showing developers who fully delegated to AI performed 17% worse on conceptual quizzes afterward. LLMs homogenize reasoning toward Western, educated, mainstream norms — for children without baseline knowledge, 'the model's reasoning doesn't compete with the child's reasoning but becomes the child's reasoning.' 92 points, 84 comments.