> It causes atrophy and, when it introduces a bug, it takes more time to understand and fix than if you had written it yourself.
I think this is the biggest risk. You sometimes get stuck in a cycle in which you hope the AI can fix its own mistake, because you don’t want to expend the effort to understand what it wrote.
It’s pure laziness that occurs only because you didn’t write the code yourself in the first place.
At the same time, I find myself incredibly bored when typing out boilerplate code these days. It was one thing with Copilot, but tools like Cursor completely obviate the need.
I think this is the biggest risk. You sometimes get stuck in a cycle in which you hope the AI can fix its own mistake, because you don’t want to expend the effort to understand what it wrote.
It’s pure laziness that occurs only because you didn’t write the code yourself in the first place.
At the same time, I find myself incredibly bored when typing out boilerplate code these days. It was one thing with Copilot, but tools like Cursor completely obviate the need.