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by i2km 9 days ago
It's bizarre isn't it. It being treated as though actually knowing how to write quality code by hand is a skill that's somehow been lost to time...

I can only guess that a lot of the engineers who went into software purely for money were all too happy to distance themselves from writing code and really don't want to go back...

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Also skill atrophy due to over-reliance on these tools is a real thing. And for some people it happens really fast, just a couple of months before they start noticing a difference (like with two of my co-workers - one stated directly to me, another indirectly through a team member).