Comment by dude250711 2 days ago
> The greatest feeling in the world is pounding your head against a problem for a couple of days and waking up the next morning with the solution sketched out in your mind.
And then you find out someone else had already solved it. So might as well use the Google 2.0 aka ChatGPT.
But to understand the solution from someone else, you would have to apply your mind to understand the problem yourself. Transferring the hard work of thinking to GPT will rob you of the attention you will need to understand the subject matter fully. You will be missing insights that would be applicable to your problem. This is the biggest danger of brain rot.
How is that a drawback? You still solved it, you learned a lot, and you can actually discuss approaches with the other one, because you actually understood the problem domain.
Well, this is exactly the problem. This tactic works until you get to a problem that nobody has solved before, even if it's just a relatively minor one that no one has solved because no one has tried to because it's so specific. If you haven't built up the skills and knowledge to solve problems, then you're stuck.