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Ask HN: How to avoid skill atrophy in LLM-assisted programming era?

13•py4•2h ago
Will technical skill even matter at all?

Comments

OGEnthusiast•1h ago
One way is to not give in to LLM hype and ignore LLM grifters.
py4•16m ago
LLM is not hype. it has made and my colleagues who are NOT working on CRUD, way more productive
notepad0x90•1h ago
What skills are atrophying that would be useful in the future?

If you're letting LLMs do more than assisting, don't. That's my advice. But if like you're title they're just assisting you, then what skills are atrophying? You still review the code and understand it right? You still second guess the LLMs proposed solutions and look for better approaches right?

Articulating how LLM assistance is different than junior programmers writing code and assisting would be useful, everyone has different setups and workflows, so it's hard to say in my opinion.

py4•18m ago
Let's say you want to make an architectural change. There are two options:

1. Ask AI to come up with the different options and let you review it

2. You think about the options and ask AI for feedback

#1 is much faster but results in atrophy (you are not critically coming up with the architecture changes)

#2 uses your and AI skills but it's gonna be slower.

which one will you choose? currently i'm doing #1

lowbloodsugar•1h ago
Ask HN 1800: How to avoid losing spinning wheel skills in new spinning jenny era?

Ask HN 1920: How to avoid losing farrier skills in new automobile era?

Ask HN 1980: How to avoid losing typewriting and shorthand skills in new microcomputer era?

Ask HN 1990: How to avoid losing assembly language skills in new C++ era?

Ask HN 1995: How to avoid losing DOS TUI app dev skills in new Windows era?

Ask HN 2000: How to avoid losing Visual Basic skills in new web application era?

(The answer, btw, is if you are still interested in such niche skills, then you just have to practice on your own, or find a niche product or marketplace).

wmil•1h ago
The younger generation discovering TUIs has been amusing.
kylehotchkiss•1h ago
Have a personal site and passion (read: not side gig) projects you work on outside of work. Hand code, get frustrated, be ambitious, don’t open Claude every time you forget a tailwind class

If you don’t have ideas, spent more time away from the screen, they will come.

mandeepj•1h ago
> If you don’t have ideas, spent more time away from the screen, they will come.

Love that, and you stated a fact. Or, rethink other products!

amadeuswoo•1h ago
The skills that atrophy are the ones you weren't using anyway. If you let the LLM do the interesting/engaging parts, that's on you, not the tool
py4•26m ago
if it's able to do the interesting/engaging part faster than me, i don't see why i should not outsource to it (The same argument as why use LLM-assisted programming at all, you don't want to miss the productivity boost)
fullstackwife•3m ago
Your technical skills are shaped by market demand, and they always have been.

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