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I used AI more last year than in any year of my career, and got quietly worse at my job. AI skill atrophy is quiet. You only notice when something breaks. The pendulum, and the three habits that keep it swinging.
The Pendulum: How to Use AI Without Losing Your EdgeI approved my own PR and felt nothing. Over-delegating to AI didn’t just make my work fragile — it made it boring. The fix wasn’t using less AI. It was flipping who leads.
Don’t Automate the FunIn 1982 skaters named a trick “the impossible” because the physics said it couldn’t exist. Decades later a 1000fps camera revealed why it can — and what that has to do with your job as a developer.
AI Didn’t Take Your Job – It Revealed ItI caught myself, again, telling Claude that we don’t do it that way in this codebase. Not the first time that week. Not the first time that day. Different repo,…
How many times have you told the agent the same thing this week
