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1. jamwise · 1790267785 · focus · HN ↗

   I have two issues with AI coding. The first is how giant trillion dollar companies are profiting off the accumulated labour of mostly open source developers who mostly offered their work for free. Open source had this pattern too but there was a kind of give and take that is not present here. The other is the atrophying of my own skills. That’s one of the reasons I don’t use it for my side projects since it’s become a requirement in my day job and I don’t want to forget how to code.

   This creates a grey area for things like a personal blog. If you’re not trying to maintain skills, yeah I wish we could avoid supporting these companies, but I can’t be a hypocrite seeing as I have to use them for work, and I use my provided account as a personal tutor to learn cool stuff.

   1. Ancapistani · 1790350553 · focus · HN ↗

      I’m not convinced skill atrophy is an issue.

      I am convinced that it’s happening, but I’ve had it happen before when I spent a couple of years in roles where I didn’t directly write code. It took my about two weeks to get back to where I was, and I see no reason to expect it will be any different these days.

      Further, I don’t expect I’ll ever need to refresh those skills. The next time I pick them up will likely be simply because I wanted to write something myself on my off-time.

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