[stavros]

> See the issue now?

No. I use a calculator, and I don't have to second-guess it. It just works. If it didn't work reliably, I would use it.

> I thought your unnecessary skill atrophied and was forgotten ?

Again, either I didn't need to do it because the AI did it well, and I forgot the skill, or it never did it well, I always did it myself, and I never forgot it. I don't understand why you're assuming that the AI will do it well enough at first that I'll forget how it's done, and that it will then somehow get bad at it so I'll have to start doing it myself again.

[ang_cire]

A pro baseball player can tell if someone is throwing a baseball well by watching them do it. Baseball training camps like pitching workshops often bring in pro players to coach new players on technical points of pitching.

If those pro players go 10 years without ever pitching a ball, they'll still know all the rote technical details on an academic/ theoretical level, but their actual pitching ability will have diminished, because skills are perishable. Coding is a skill.

Observing someone else code is not practice for coding yourself, and will not maintain (nevermind improve on) your coding skills.