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Re:Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for ever... by ofjcihen on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:23AM (#48435157)
I interpreted hooked to mean “the degradation of skills has made it significantly harder to transition back to doing things with auto-complete/by hand”.

Could be wrong though.

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Re:Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for ever... by brookst on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:30AM (#48435204)
Fair enough. Though in that framing I’d question whether SWE skills degrade that quickly, or are unrecoverable. I took a year off from writing software… I was fine.
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