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AI deskilling fears prompt calls for preserving core engineering talent

The author expresses concern about the increasing reliance on AI tools, particularly among junior software engineers, leading to a potential loss of fundamental coding skills. This trend, termed "deskilling" and "enshittification," is predicted to result in a future where true engineering talent is forgotten and low-quality, AI-generated code is accepted as the norm. AI

IMPACT Raises concerns about AI's role in deskilling software engineers and potentially devaluing human coding expertise.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece discussing the potential negative impacts of AI on software engineering skills.

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AI deskilling fears prompt calls for preserving core engineering talent

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    With all the # AI -#deskilling and # enshittification , people (and junior software engineers, sorry, "junior vibe coders") will be asking this in ten years. An

    With all the # AI -#deskilling and # enshittification , people (and junior software engineers, sorry, "junior vibe coders") will be asking this in ten years. And the last true software engineers who can still write code on their own will weep, because nobody remembers them and ev…