Is Copilot Making Us Worse Developers?

We are outsourcing our logic to AI. Here is why that's dangerous, and the meta-skills you need to learn instead

Be honest. When was the last time you wrote a complex regex from scratch, or set up a boilerplate server without hitting Tab to let GitHub Copilot finish it for you?

I’ve been watching a really disturbing trend in our industry over the last 12 months.

I’m seeing junior devs ship React components they don't actually understand. I'm seeing senior engineers use ChatGPT to debug stack traces instead of actually reading the logs.

We are slowly, quietly, outsourcing our brains.