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I never ever blindly accept AI output. I must understand it, and 99% of the time I at a minimum tweak it or clean it up myself. If there's anything I don't understand, I don't move on until I understand it. In this way, I keep my skills sharp AND learn new things from how AI writes things. At this point, AI is most useful to me for ideation/planning, prototyping, code review, etc. Maybe I'm the dinosaur, but I still write more than half of my code (sometimes rewriting what AI generated to be cleaner and easier to understand). AI still generates too much slop for me to trust it more, but I suppose it's only getting better..
I treat all LLM code output like a pull request. I still do code a good deal without LLMs, but I never accept the output based just on testing the functionality when running the code.
I haven't had that exact experience, but things quite like it. When answers are easily available and we bypass part of our own thinking and memory it's like we do some subtle rewiring of our brains. Or, in some cases, it may not be subtle. I could foresee scenarios were we may get very rusty on basic skills. I suppose it's similar to how most people have essentially forgotten how to do long division, but at a much more accelerated rate of forgetting.
I don’t think it’s unsettling. Think of it as you have a very smart junior developer and you are the design developer. You tell it the system you want to design and it writes the code or even brainstorms ideas with you.
I think that's okay. Your brain is working as it should. It slowly disposes of the things that are not as frequently used anymore, to make space for things that are. To me, what matters most is my general rate of learning and reviewing. As long as I can easily relearn or review to get that knowledge back, I'm not worried.
Chief
I have noticed the same risk. AI tools speed things up, but they can slowly weaken the mental muscle that comes from repetition. I try to occasionally write things manually just to keep those fundamentals sharp.
Not here is the thing, is it even necessary to write any of your code on your own?
Rising Star
I think it is true that if you don't use skills almost daily, you just start to lose them!
Chief
Yeah I have but because I’m intermediate I feel like I have gotten so much out of AI that the positives outweigh the negatives. I just can’t imagine not using it anymore.
It is like Google right before AI. Everything was searched on Google before; now it is AI giving direct answers
Yes, AI will allow your brain to atrophy over time. This is one of the concerns about AI taking over everything. The software industry is being hit hard. Find something else to do with your life where AI cannot yet compete.