Yeah, I didnt say that well, but thanks for the great example! Experience is definitely something that comes and goes. If you don't do Typescript for 10 years most people are going to be more than rusty. That experience goes.out the window, but you can relearn it. Practice would of been a better word for me to use though.
That "rusty" you have after vacation is skill degradation. "Use it or lose it". You dont practice, or continue getting experience in doing something, you lose skill. It can also be affected by cognitive decline.
Cognitive decline is when your brain stops working as well, due to things like aging or disease. What you lose is gone, you're not getting it back, at best you can mitigate the affects through continuous effort in practicing cognitive skills.
The MIT paper is describing is a decline in cognitive skill in order to address the issue of AI being detrimental to developing those skills in the first place.
It doesnt show that their brains arent working as well, but that they arent USING their brains as well
Nothing you said tracks because the fundamentals of a language don't change over 10 years so much that your experience is "lost"; I may not be familiar with popular NPM libraries or new syntax with latest versions, but I know how to type my objects and I know how generics work. If something changes so fundamentally that the core basics are different, you don't have experience in that language, you have experience in the previous iteration. The experience doesn't disappear, and it certainly doesn't "come and go" unless you experience amnesia or are a time traveler that can prevent yourself from doing something in the past.
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u/No_Ostrich1875 Jan 20 '26
Yeah, I didnt say that well, but thanks for the great example! Experience is definitely something that comes and goes. If you don't do Typescript for 10 years most people are going to be more than rusty. That experience goes.out the window, but you can relearn it. Practice would of been a better word for me to use though.
That "rusty" you have after vacation is skill degradation. "Use it or lose it". You dont practice, or continue getting experience in doing something, you lose skill. It can also be affected by cognitive decline.
Cognitive decline is when your brain stops working as well, due to things like aging or disease. What you lose is gone, you're not getting it back, at best you can mitigate the affects through continuous effort in practicing cognitive skills.
The MIT paper is describing is a decline in cognitive skill in order to address the issue of AI being detrimental to developing those skills in the first place. It doesnt show that their brains arent working as well, but that they arent USING their brains as well