https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

Anthropic's own fucking study lmao

"Yeah AI coding makes you worse at it"

like
significantly so

This tracks with my personal experience in my previous job.

Rapid deskilling when they started using llm "prompt engineering" for the code they pushed.

Within weeks they basically had stopped being able to explain what they were pushing during code review.

@Loosf shout out to the taco bell ai for letting me, a water enjoyer, order 6 million cups of water.