This piece is a bit too much written as Rust zealotry for my taste. That being said, there's in my opinion an interesting core truth hidden in there: for now it seems to better foster "expert generalists" when investing in it. Now it might be just for now and might stop later... time will tell.

OK, this is a serious and long paper. It shows quite well how over reliance on ChatGPT during the learning phase on some topics impacts people. It's mesurable both from their behavior and through EEG. Of course, it'd require more such studies with larger groups. Still those early signs are concerning.

More signs of students being harmed in their learning... they get better grades when using gen AI but their skills drop.

This is an important piece of advice. You need to try things for yourself and fail to really learn. I'm not talking about failing in production of course. But trying to break something locally to see how it behaves, reading the errors, etc. is part of learning. This is how you will troubleshoot things faster the next time.

This looks like a really fun workshop. Been wanting to run one for a long time now. Somehow I never had the chance.

A personal experience which led to not using ChatGPT anymore. This kind of validates other papers on cognitive decline, the added value is in how it makes it more personal and concrete.

Somehow I missed this paper last year. Interesting review of studies on the use of gen AI chat systems in learning and research environments. The amount of ethical issues is non negligible as one would expect. It also confirms the negative impact of using those tools on cognitive abilities. More concerning is the creation of a subtle vicious circle as highlighted by this quote: "regular utilization of dialogue systems is linked to a decline in abilities of cognitive abilities, a diminished capacity for information retention, and an increased reliance on these systems for information".

It's a very good idea to help C++ developers pickup Rust.

For studying it makes sense. But don't shun other's work away only because of trust or ego issues.

This is a good rant, I liked it. Lots of very good points in there of course. Again: the area where it's useful is very narrow. I also nails down the consequences of a profession going full in with those tools.

Somehow not surprising... There's an area where it works OK. That said, I think we don't have the right UX to exploit it safely and productively. The right practices still need to be found. This isn't helped by all the hype and crazy announcements.

This is I think the most worrying consequences of this current hype. What happens when you get a whole generation which didn't learn anything related to their culture? Is Idiocracy the next step? How close are we?
At least, it will have made very obvious the problems with how our education system evolved the past twenty years (if not more).

Quite some good advice in here. I like being around people who proactively communicate, mind the quality of the communication and look for new things to work on. Who wouldn't?

Or why it's important to deeply understand what you do and what you use. Cranking features and throwing code to the wall until it sticks will never lead to good engineering. Even if it's abstractions all the way, it's for convenience but don't treat them as black boxes.
Interestingly this article draws a parallel with organizations too. Isn't having very siloed teams the same as treating abstractions as black boxes?
Quite some food for thought here.

Good advice on how to learn Rust. I recommend quite some of it.

I wonder how much the focus on Python biased that study... Still, maybe we've been wrong at so much emphasis on math skills for computer science and computer engineering curricula.

The metaphors are... funny. But still I think there's good lesson in there. If you use generative AI tools for development purposes, don't loose sight of the struggle needed to learn and improve. Otherwise you won't be able to properly drive those tools after a while.

Very nice praise to an underrated and underpaid job. Can we have more librarians please?

This is a good list of skills and behaviour to develop if you want to get better at our craft.

There's some truth to this. It's easier to market yourself as a specialist rather than a generalist... This doesn't make it easy.