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Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI
How to use AI coding assistants without letting your hard-earned engineering skills wither away.
A 2025 study by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon researchers found that the more people leaned on AI tools, the less critical thinking they engaged in, making it harder to summon those skills when needed. Knowledge trade-off: AI offers quick answers (high speed, low learning), whereas older methods (Stack Overflow, documentation) were slower but built deeper understanding In the long run, teams could become less than the sum of their parts – a collection of individuals each quietly reliant on their AI crutch, with fewer robust shared practices of critical review.
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