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Re:Ask HN: Are AI Copilots Eroding Our Programming Skills? by NewUser76312 on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @11:43AM (#44445112)
It's probably worthwhile to compare this to calculators and mental math skills.

To a certain extent, yes absolutely. If you programmed more yourself, you'd be better at programming than the version of you that spends any significant amount of time generating AI code.

But that doesn't mean you'll totally atrophy the skill and magically forget your fundamentals.

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Re:Ask HN: Are AI Copilots Eroding Our Programming Skills? by ryry on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @02:54PM (#44447455)
This exactly. I find that I don't remember how to do some of the things I used to have more easily memorized, but I still need the fundamentals when things go horribly wrong and I need to dive into code myself.
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