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I'd be curious how skill atrophy affects engineers who use AI semi-exclusively for these trivial tasks.


I tried doing all of my work for ~1 month with copilot/claude. It didn’t cause a ton of atrophy, because it didn’t work - I couldn’t avoid actually getting involved in rewriting code




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