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AI Coding Assistants Risk Turning Developers Into Supervisors
Developers increasingly rely on AI to generate code, shifting from building to prompting. This risks junior devs missing fundamental learning like debugging and design patterns. The author warns that prompt engineering is not a substitute for software engineering.
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The piece rightly flags a real concern, but AI-assisted coding is still a tool; the onus is on developers and educators to ensure fundamentals aren't lost.
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