Why “deskilling” is being discussed
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Not sure why this didn't get more attention, it's a good article. It's weird that people don't have more awareness that AI causes eventual deskilling which leads to worse engine…
by quantiq · Oct 31, 2026
I don't think that LLMs mirror human cognition or "sanity" as much as people want to believe. We are not constantly hallucinating in any way that applies to the term as commonly…
by krapp · Oct 31, 2026
Not deskilling all of us. Some of us with greybeards are immune to the hype train.
by jachee · Oct 31, 2026
Deskilling has been happening for centuries. One doesn't farm their own vegetables, hunt for their meat, slaughter their own livestock, maintain their own vehicles (ahem - remem…
by orochimaaru · Oct 31, 2026
I disagree with several premises of the article. There is not going to be human led investigations of outages. People do not need to train on easy outages to be able to handle h…
by charcircuit · Oct 31, 2026
soooo wouldn't that be exactly the "deskilling" being discussed here, and isn't that deskilling concerning for money-handling firms? having seen both (a) mission-critical human-…
by majormajor · Oct 31, 2026
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In economics, deskilling is the process by which skilled labor within an industry or economy is eliminated by the introduction of technologies operated by semi-skilled or unskilled workers. This results in cost savings due to lower investment in human capital, and reduces barriers to entry, weakening the bargaining power of the human capital. Deskilling is the decline in working positions through the machinery or technology introduced to separate workers from the production process. Read more on Wikipedia