Comment by bigfishrunning
13 hours ago
I think the "meat proxy" people are mediocre regardless of whether or not the were brilliant pre-AI. They've reduced themselves to a copy-paste go-between for claude and slack (or github or jira or whatever) and are mediocre now. If only they could turn back the clock...
Some skills are easy re-pick-uppable, like bicycling. Mathematics is probably more challenging. Not sure about programming, especially "borint" business-like programming.
There's a reason games like Factorio or Exapunks are so popular among engineers!
Especially if you get a little burned out and can't bring yourself to contribute to a side project, but still want to do programming-ish things that get your brain moving
Nah.
After you have those skills, they don’t go away.
Math: the most important stuff is the biggest picture. If you learned it properly (not just memorizing), that’s the last to fade.
With programming, the details change but the fundamental skill doesn’t. Or hadn’t as of a few years ago.
Does that really matter though if people aren't using the skills, and are just copying and pasting slop?