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AI Is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers
A couple of days ago, Cursor went down during the ChatGPT outage. I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS error glared back at me. I didn’t want to figure it out without AI’s help. After 12 years of coding, I’d somehow become worse at my own craft. And this isn’t hyperbole—this is the new reality for software developers.
The dopamine hit of instant answers has replaced the satisfaction of genuine understanding. I’m building an AI-powered development tool, but I can’t shake the feeling I’m contributing to the very problem that’s eroding our collective skills. I feel a stronger connection with my code and a sense of ownership, which had slowly disappeared with AI.
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