Comment by ekropotin

The solution for brain atrophy I personally arrived is to use coding agents at work, where, let’s be honest, velocity is a top priority and code purity doesn’t matter that much. Since we use stack I super familial with, I can quite fast verify produced code and tweak it if needed.

However, for hobby projects where I purposely use tech I’m not very familiar with, I force myself not to use LLMs at all - even as a chat. Thus, operating The old way - writing code manually, reading documentation, etc brings me a joy of learning back and, hopefully, establishes new neurone connections.