AI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars Faye
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The need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation.
"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for" - Sam Altman of OpenAI In my previous article, Agentic Coding is a Trap, I discussed the "skilled orchestrator paradox", where the skills required to manage AI agents for coding are the same ones that can be diminished through the continued use of said AI agents. Expertise was largely the differentiator; the more experienced a developer is, the less likely it is that they might experience skill atrophy, as the knowledge has had a…
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