[Todd]

This is called cognitive offloading. Anyone who’s spent enough time working with coding assistants will recognize it.

[esafak]

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...

[15123123]

I don't think not using assembly is going to affect my brain / my life quality in any significant way, but not speaking / chatting with someone is.

[nothrabannosir]

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.