Comment by meander_water
1 month ago
Agreed, I've been thinking about the first assertion a lot recently as I've been using Cursor to create a react app. I think it's more prevalent in frontend development because it tightens the feedback loop considerably, and the more positive feedback you get, the more conditioned you get to reach for it anytime you need to do anything in code.
I think there's another perverse incentive here - organisations want to produce features/products fast, which LLMs help with, but it comes at the cost of reduced cognitive capabilities/skills in the developers over the longer term as they've given that up through lack of use/practice.
That's not a great argument for talking down their utility for experienced developers, though.
I'm not so sure, I think skills atrophy with disuse no matter what level of experience you have. Like I have around 15 years of experience, but if I stepped away from coding for even just a year a lot of those years of experience will count for nothing.