I also support No GenAI every day ending in a Y, but I support this, too.

To me the design has always felt like the thinking though.

My heart sank when I saw this post. I thought we’d created enemies!

No conflict here, though.

Personal example... A few weeks ago, I realized that with all these agents running and all the things I could be working on, I was spending my days managing shallow pings instead of going deep.

I have AI agents managing SEO and ad spend. I used to spend a little time every day reading what each had to say. Now each gives me one detailed report per week, with links to the underlying reports and specific things I need to look at. I block 90 minutes for each one, on different days, and use that time to go deep. It’s helped a lot.

Anecdotal example but I know plenty of students (Including my own brother) who graduated recently who did it almost entirely with AI (unfortunately at the request of their own professors) who can't answer the most basic of questions that I would have expected of sometimes even first year CS students in the days before AI was a thing, which is why I encourage them to build projects without it.

Personally, I'm starting to think that in university and education systems, all projects should now be done in class and in computer labs/monitored study halls because we can't trust anyone to not use AI anymore.

Not using AI is similar to giving employees 20% of their time for any non-sprint work.

This privilege of No AI usage a day will lower the productivity, and rarely any companies will allow it (if they track your usage, which I am sure they do)

[Edit] just seen that OP is pitching this rather than practicing it. I wonder if any team actually do have a practice like this...

This should happen daily.....

Let me make a better suggestion.

Pick a difficult/foreign topic that will force you to grow. Learn it with a book and in an "API agnostic" way. For example, it's better to learn about concurrency than goroutines. Feel free to use AI as your teacher or even student, but practice with your own brain.

> Study after study shows that using LLMs can cause you to accumulate cognitive debt, make you less engaged with your work, negatively impact your critical thinking abilities, and hamper your skill formation.

False

I've learned more, I am more engaged, it has positively impacted my critical thinking abilities and has increased my skill formation

For me it's AI 24/7 even on sundays