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by geopsist 2 days ago
coming from a different pov, I was (am) systems engineer who never became a proper coder, then founder, now mostly product/growrth. So AI and agents dint erode a mastery i had, they gave me one i never had. What you describe though makes sense for the skills I did have and I see a dependency as well. Things I used to work out myself, even slowly, I now reach for the agent first by reflex. The speed effect is indeed there. I get anxiety many times that I don't understand subject matters or I learn them slowly. Haven't found a good way other than keeping some of the writing or critical judgment calls to me. On a happy note i try not to push LLMs at all to my kids as I start reading such dependencies happening there.