Using AI may cause some of your skills atrophy, and your employer therefore needs to take steps to keep you sharp.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs there anyone here who’s OK with the idea that they may wake up one day and find they have no one left in the organization who knows how to code?\u201d asked Gartner distinguished VP analyst Daryl Plummer during the keynote speech of the firm\u2019s Symposium conference in Australia yesterday.<\/p>\n
Plummer floated that scenario because he feels use of AI coding tools mean developers may eventually spend their days generating code, not writing it. \u201cIf you don’t use your coding skills every day, you are losing coding skills every day,\u201d he added, then concluded \u201cAI is stealing your skills.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manjunath Bhat, another of Gartner\u2019s distinguished VP analysts, used the term \u201cskills erosion\u201d during another session at the conference.<\/p>\n
Bhat said that adoption of AI coding assistants can cause \u201cexperience compression\u201d whe employers expect the tools will help young developers to acquire skills and improve performance in months instead of years. That thinking creates \u201cexperience starvation\u201d \u2013 missing out on learning from being hands-on and tackling many different tasks \u2013 and leads to \u201cerosion of critical and foundational skills.\u201d<\/p>\n
He wants employers to ensure their developers acquire and exercise core critical thinking skills, and foundational technical skills, to ensure they can fulfill the role of developers in the AI age: Exercising creativity that machines cannot.<\/p>\n
Plummer also recommended taking steps to maintain critical thinking skills, and advised employers to \u201cinstitute periodic reviews or testing to make sure critical skills are not being eroded by AI.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also suggested that skills erosion is one of the emerging \u2013 and largely unidentified \u2013 byproducts of using AI.<\/p>\n
\u201cRemember when you got your first social media account?\u201d he asked. \u201cYou might not have asked what are the behavioral byproducts of having the world’s most addictive algorithm on your phone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those byproducts are now horribly obvious: \u201cWe know it’s a pit of doom scrolling and three second attention spans,\u201d Plummer said.<\/p>\n
The after-effects of AI are harder to predict, he said, and 91 percent of CIOs surveyed by Gartner are dedicating \u201clittle or no time\u201d to looking for them. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Using AI may cause some of your skills atrophy, and your employer therefore needs to take steps to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-4726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}