When you start relying on something else, it’s quite natural and expected to no longer be good at the thing now being done for you.
But in this context, it’s a net negative. While you can certainly write more code while using the tool, you’re almost always writing worse code. And you still get the atrophy, so the result overall: now you’re not good at the thing, and neither is the tool you’re using.
And remember, AI models need constant retraining as systems and approaches are updated, languages change, etc. Where is that training data going to come from? From the people now worse at coding than they were before.
When you start relying on something else, it’s quite natural and expected to no longer be good at the thing now being done for you.
But in this context, it’s a net negative. While you can certainly write more code while using the tool, you’re almost always writing worse code. And you still get the atrophy, so the result overall: now you’re not good at the thing, and neither is the tool you’re using.
And remember, AI models need constant retraining as systems and approaches are updated, languages change, etc. Where is that training data going to come from? From the people now worse at coding than they were before.