How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills \ Anthropic
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Alignment How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Jan 29, 2026 Read the paper Research shows AI helps people do parts of their job faster. In an observational study of Claude.ai data, we found AI can speed up some tasks by 80%. But does this increased productivity come with trade-offs? Other research shows that when people use AI assistance, they become less engaged with their work and reduce the effort they put into doing it—in other words, they offload their thinking to AI. It’s unclear whether this cognitive offloading can prevent people from growing their skills on the job
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