How AI Impacts Skill Formation

Re:How AI Impacts Skill Formation by gergo_b on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:02AM (#46822125)

When I use AI to write code, after a week or 2, if I go back to the written code I have a hard time catching up. When I write code by myself I always just look at it and I understand what I did.

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Re:How AI Impacts Skill Formation by northfield27 on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:17AM (#46822226)

++Hard Agree.

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Re:How AI Impacts Skill Formation by jackdoe on Friday January 30, 2026 @05:05AM (#46822567)

a program is function of the programmer, how you code is how you think. that is why it is really difficult, even after 60 years, for multiple people to work on the same codebase, over the years we have made all kinds of rules and processess so that code written by one person can be understood and changed by another.

you can also read human code and empathise what were they thinking while writing it

AI code is not for humans, it is just a stream of tokens that do something, you need to build skills to empirically verify that it does what you think it does, but it is pointless to "reason" about it.

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Re:How AI Impacts Skill Formation by AstroBen on Friday January 30, 2026 @01:26PM (#46827981)

Not only do I have a hard time catching up, but it's like I'm looking at a codebase I've never seen before, even though I absolutely reviewed the code before committing

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