I agree with you for almost anything except one thing: boilerplate, not designing them; using them. I just can't be bothered to do it anymore. Not even copy & paste. But, I'm not letting AI win that one either because that would be inefficient. Instead I just make cli commands and if it is some recurring thing I crontab it. And thats it, problem solved. No more tedious repeating myself.

This was caused by LLM usage though - simply because the amount of boilerplate in interacting with LLMs went through the roof.

optimism

I would guess that in cases mentioned in the article it's a loss of vigilance more so than knowledge.

k00b

I'll be honest.  I am inclined not to believe this, or at least the framing of it.  In my personal work, especially work for which I'm already deeply familiar, I don't think that a 3 month window of AI use is going to cause me to perform significantly worse on things that I'd already been doing for years.