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by whateveracct 9 days ago
i've heard of principle level engineers saying their typing is bad now.

skill atrophy is real. especially for the stupid.

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I'm typing to talk to the LLM, so definitely not lost.

The main atrophy I'm concerned about is keeping in mind the state of a massive piece of code executing in my mind.

Now with LLM I just ask "show me the state by putting comments in the code" and I just read it