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Feb 18, 2025 · Industry Insights

Are AI Tools Eroding Our Programming Skills? A Developer’s Self‑Experiment

A seasoned developer reflects on how reliance on AI for documentation, debugging, and code generation has quietly degraded core programming abilities, proposes a weekly "no‑AI" day to reclaim skills, and warns that our dependence on AI may be ten times greater than any productivity boost.