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seem to be losing their coding skills and critical skills

I am pretty sure I have read that about junior developers long before LLM's.

And about juniors in other fields.

Or to put it another way, I don't think I have ever heard a senior professional say "I can't believe how well prepared all the new graduates are!" Sure a few programmers hit the ground running because they were already running for a many years and the standard of the organization is not amazingly high.

But maybe AI has changed everything even if it sounds like what I thought of the next generation a generation ago. Good luck.