Devastating Decline

https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder/

I very much see myself in this.

Does getting good at programming rot the brain?

Cant sympathize with that. I began coding at the age of 22 or so. I don't do drugs myself either, but I do sell diluted shit to slavic subhumans. Guess one day some local cartel will skin me alive :D

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Does getting good at programming rot the brain?

Do not _rot_ the brain; code the brain.

http://ai.neocities.org/AiSteps.html -- Coding NLU

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I've heard easy access to Google/search engine atrophied long-term memory. Startup fever and OCD debugging don't really seem a recipe for psychological stability.

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thats why i started offlining my info as much as possible, bought dictionary, printed some of my ebooks, in the means of buying encyclopedia