Developers Losing Core Coding Skills from LLM Over-Reliance with No Way to Self-Assess
Software engineers increasingly defer to AI for problems they previously solved independently, eroding foundational skills without realizing it. No objective mechanism exists to measure or monitor cognitive skill atrophy from AI over-reliance. Teams observe the pattern in peers but lack language or tools to address it constructively.
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