Using LLMs to Reverse Skill Atrophy

A couple of weeks ago a blog post titled “Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI” blew up online. It warned that over-reliance on LLMs causes the user’s programming (or other) skills to decay over time; a phenomenon a lot of people have been seeing in themselves and others. For months now, I’ve found myself struggling with data science fundamentals: NumPy, pandas, and Matplotlib. These three…