Ashraf Mahmoud's profile on Product Hunt

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Medical researcher turned accidental app creator. What started as a fun project to build a custom widget for my Android phone—QuickFolder—is now the tool I use more than any other app. I’ve brought my research-driven focus on detail and statistics to the dev process, building a high-utility tool that’s focused on privacy. No ads, no tracking, just better organization.

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1mo ago

Will AI and technology improve our skills or downgrade them?

Today, I read a study showing that social media use is linked to weaker reading, vocabulary, and word-recognition skills in teens under 16.
Yesterday, I read an article saying that students who used AI showed up to 55% less brain activity and remembered less.
According to the news, if this is what technology was supposed to help us with and make our lives easier, then I don t see the future very brightly.

On the contrary, I have to say that I use AI for education (e.g. for building, explaining things when I do not understand them). But 80% of people just take the information and do not bother to think about other things.
Yes, we can save a lot of time, and mental capacity/energy with "no memorising" but do we really spend that saved time on something useful and meaningful?

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