>>will retard the skill development I worked at a Indian IT services firm which even until mid-2010's didn't give internet access to people at work. Their argu

>>will retard the skill development I worked at a Indian IT services firm which even until mid-2010's didn't give internet access to people at work. Their argument was that use of internet would make the developers dumb. The argument always was assume you had internet outage for days and had to code , you would value your skills then. Well guess what its been decades now, and I don't think that situation has ever come to pass, heck not even something close to that has come to pass. Sometimes how you do things changes. During the peak of Perl craze, my team lead often told me people who didn't use C++ weren't as smart and eventually people who used Perl would have their thinking skills atrophy when Perl wouldn't be around. That doomsday scenarios hasn't happened either. People have similar things about Java, IDEs, package managers, docker etc etc. Businesses don't even care about these things. A real estate developer wants to sell homes, their job is not to build web sites. So as long as working site is available, they don't care who builds it, you or AI. Make whatever of this you will.