Stack Underflow: Losing the Craft of Coding

As a software engineer at a big tech company, I accomplish a non-trivial portion of my work with ⌘+C, ⌘+V — plugging the contents into my AI agent and letting it do all the thinking and execution for me. I’ll even use agents for technical conversations where I’m out of my depth. A fellow engineer will message me a question and I’ll paste the conversation directly into the agent. Sometimes in meetings, I’ll transcribe a question in real time to my agent so I can reply intelligently without missing a beat. Much of my work at this point is that...

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