Post #1926518

2026-03-14 14:10 UTC

@0gust1 @fvsch From that tweet: > I've already noticed that I am slowly starting to atrophy my ability to write code manually. Generation (writing code) and discrimination (reading code) are different capabilities in the brain. I'm hearing and reading reports like this more and more. Do you feel the same? Do have a plan if it ever starts happening to you?

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@0gust1@merveilles.town 2026-03-14 14:31

@n1k0 @fvsch > Do you feel the same? Yes, a bit. I tend to keep the usage on boring/administrative/glue code or when stuck (because I'm lacking senior colleagues right now...). My usage is still very low (when I compare token consumptions with other people). > Do have a plan if it's ever starts happening to you? Professionally, not really. That said, I often rework the machine output, sometimes quite a lot. On personal level, yes, I try (on free time... :-/ ) to dabble with other langs (OCaml, Rust), without any text synthesizer (I'm also getting tired of the cruftiness of Python/JS/TS). On the atrophy and consequences topic, I'm much more worried by everybody's everyday naive usages that my eldest daughter and my wife report to me. I almost never use those text synthesizers on other purposes than software-eng. topics.

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