I recently did a manual exercise to force myself to keep my skills from decaying too much after about a year of using agents exclusively. My ability to go from a blank slate to software was indeed in the toilet, but my ability to reason over and edit code seems to be surviving fine. I suspect that your LLM-pilled coworkers' judgment issues are related to laziness that LLMs have enabled, rather than an inherent property of LLM use.
You can't be able to do one but not the other, they're the same thing.
> I suspect that your LLM-pilled coworkers' judgment issues are related to laziness that LLMs have enabled, rather than an inherent property of LLM use.
Does it matter? The end result is the same. Maybe the studies that the article mentions are simply showcasing the exact same effect that you're suggesting here, but it doesn't change the fact that there is indeed a negative outcome.
Not true, blank page syndrome, inertia and write vs edit flows are a known thing across disciplines. You might not think about it as much because you have a command in your package manager or framework to bootstrap projects, but imagine if you had to hand code _everything_. I'll guess there are languages/frameworks where you consider yourself quite proficient but where you couldn't bootstrap a project without checking the docs if not for the tooling.
It matters. If LLMs are like alcohol, useful but potentially dangerous, they should be treated very differently than if they're just poison. If someone's a drunk and they can't keep their lives together, it's not the alcohol's fault, it's the person's.
