I wrote a chess engine and still can't play chess: AI coding and skill decay (Ep. 317)

I wrote a chess engine that beats real players. I still can't play chess.
Developers who hand their coding to AI are heading the same way: they can build the machine but can't play the game. We go through the evidence (Anthropic, METR, Microsoft/CMU), the best counterarguments, and the habits that protect your skills. The main one: never generate more code than you can read.

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