The skill atrophy point strikes me as tenuous at best. Obviously, the plural of anecdote is not data, but I find myself able to work on projects of greater complexity than I would have been able to otherwise. 90% of my time is spent going back and forth on Markdown files, discussing the architecture, trade-offs, etc. I don't think it's necessarily impossible to use all this newfound power to ship more sloppier code. It's clearly possible to use all this newfound power to ship better code too.

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dijksterhuis 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

a real study from Microsoft + Carnegie Mellon University with 319 study participants

> while GenAI can improve worker efficiency, it can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

it's a real problem when applied to a population.

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piker 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I find myself able to work on projects of greater complexity than I would have been able to otherwise

Yes. Now turn off the LLM and make an improvement to that code.

	▲	adamors 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly, this is like watching youtubers code, ie backseat coding. It’s easy to follow along but taking control midway is anything but, especially in a codebase that has been written by an agent and you don’t have any muscle-memory in.

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james-clef 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Totally agree with this taking on projects of greater complexity. I honestly feel the sloppier code thing is going to die soon. People make mistakes too. Always see people holding the machine to like this totally different standard.