[pranavj]

Exactly this. The shift from "writing code" to "reviewing code and focusing on architecture" is the natural evolution. Every abstraction layer in computing history freed us to think at higher levels - assembler to C, C to Python, and now Python to "describe what you want."

The people framing this as "cognitive debt" are measuring the wrong thing. You're not losing the ability to think - you're shifting what you think about. That's not a bug, it's the whole point.

[slekker]

The problem is that how do you review code if you don't know what it is supposed to look like? Creativity is not only in the problem solving step but also when implementing it, and letting an LLM do most of it is incredibly dangerous for the future, more so on juniors are gaining experience this way. The software quality will be much worse, and the churn even higher, and I will be in a farm with my chickens