@getajobmike I think you do. Even if actual coding skills didn’t dissipate that fast you develop dependence on AI for job quite fast. The main factor is rapid accumulation of cognitive debt. Amount of code produced is larger than you can keep track of so you have to use AI to explain that code and make changes to it. AI is also not concerned with doing minimal changes, it often will rewrite huge portions of existing code which also leads to cognitive debt: what little you understood about the code quickly becomes irrelevant.

Another issue is you expose yourself to huge amounts of plausible but not very good code. This influence your perception of what “normal” code looks like and it’s not in a good way.

If you’ve been in the industry for a decade or two you’ll probably be able to do things the old way for the rest of your life but it’s hard, much harder, and not everyone wants to put up with it.

@tante