  > (1) people who are able to understand the concepts deeply, build a mental model of it and implement them in code at any level, and (2) people who outsource it to a machine and slowly, slowly loose that capability.

...is it really only going to be these two? No middle ground, gradient, or possibly even a trichotomous variation of your split?

  > loose that capability

You mean "lose". ;)

▲ benterix 5 days ago | parent [-]

Well, in real life you always have a gradient (or, more usually, a normal distribution) - actually it would be interesting to understand what the actual distribution is and how it changes with time.

	▲	chaps 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		It would! I'd be very interested in seeing the shape and outliers. Like, are there some folk who actually see improvements? Or who don't see any brain reprogramming at all? Do different methods of interacting with these systems have the same reprogramming effect? etc etc