Skill declines over time, without practice. If you speak fluent japanese, and you dont practice, you will remember being fluent but no longer actually be able

Skill declines over time, without practice. If you speak fluent japanese, and you dont practice, you will remember being fluent but no longer actually be able to speak fluently. Its true for many things; writing code is not like riding a bike. You cant not write code for a year and then come back at the same skill level. Using an agent is not writing code; but using an agent effectively requires that you have the skill of writing code. So, after using a tool that automatically writes code for you, that you probably give some superficial review to, you will find, over time, that you are worse at coding. You can sigh and shake your head and stamp your feet and disagree, but its flat out a fact of life: If you dont practice, you lose skill. I, personally found, this happening, so I now do 50/50 time: 1 week with AI, 1 week with strictly no AI. If the no AI week “feels hard” then I extend it for another week, to make sure I retain the skills I feel I should have. Anecdotally, here at $corp, I see people struggling because they are offloading the “make an initial plan to do x that I can review” step too much, and losing the ability to plan software effectively. Dont be that guy. If you offload all your responsibilities to an agent and sit playing with your phone, you are making yourself entirely replacable.