Post by Nedim Dedic

Skill Atrophy What happens to the skills that got us here? Will they get us there? The only code I shipped to prod in the last year was AI-generated. It got me thinking about the skills behind what I'm no longer doing. What do we keep? What can we let go of? Does coding become a relic we practice occasionally, like building a ship on weekends while the shipyard runs on autopilot? Or is keeping those skills sharp still essential, even if they're used differently? Reading code, tracing execution, knowing what's expensive, debugging when things hit the wall. Agents can help. They just can't always tell when they got it wrong. The real danger isn't that we stop coding by hand. It's that we outsource judgment and lose the ability to tell good output from bad. That's the atrophy worth guarding against. Stay in the (agentic) loop. -- Early data points in the same direction: https:// https://lnkd.in/d5NRGrzD