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You use AI to write code. It feels fast. But you are losing your skills. Experts call this cognitive debt.
Anthropic warns about a paradox. You need strong skills to supervise AI. But using AI destroys those skills.
Research shows the damage.
- MIT found a loss in synthesis skills.
- Microsoft saw similar drops in knowledge workers.
- Some engineers saw a 47% drop in debugging skills.
Coding is not typing. Coding is thinking. When you write code, you solve the problem. AI skips this process. You lose your mental model of the system.
Friction builds senior engineers. They spent years fixing bugs. They read bad code. They failed often. This struggle created their judgment.
Junior engineers now only review AI changes. They skip the struggle. This breaks the path to seniority. The industry will run out of senior engineers.
Change your workflow.
- Use AI for research.
- Use AI for specs.
- Write the implementation yourself.
- Do not generate more code than you are able to review.
Stop outsourcing your critical thinking. Protect your brain. Keep your hands on the keyboard.
Source: https://dev.to/arthurpro/what-we-lose-when-coding-becomes-reviewing-4b6o Optional learning community: https://t.me/GyaanSetuAi