Comment by Todd
This is called cognitive offloading. Anyone who’s spent enough time working with coding assistants will recognize it.
This is called cognitive offloading. Anyone who’s spent enough time working with coding assistants will recognize it.
But this is a strawman argument, it's not what the research is talking about.
If LLMs were as reliable as compilers we wouldn’t be checking in their output, and I’d be happy to forget all programming lore.
The “skill domain” with compilers is the “input”: that’s what I need to grok , maintain , and understand . With LLMs it’s the “output”.
until that changes, you’re playing a dangerous game letting those skills atrophy.
Or working as an engineering manager.
It's the inevitable consequence of working at a different level of abstraction. It's not the end of the world. My assembly is rusty too...