I see where this is going in the context of tools like Cursor. The common wisdom is that if you don't use it, you lose it. Muscles atrophy without stimulus (regular exercise).

On the other hand, this seems to echo the transition from assembly -> higher level languages. The complaint was that we lose the skill or the context to understand what the machine is really doing.

I've written a whole bunch of LLM-assisted code in the past few weeks so I sympathize. If I'm generous, I have a high level understanding of the generated code. If I have to troubleshoot it, I'm basically diving into an unknown code base.

Anyway, I'm just rambling here. More tools is better, it gives everyone an opportunity to work the way they want to.