What We Lose When Coding Becomes Reviewing (opens in new tab)

Buried in a recent Anthropic research note is one of the more honest sentences a major AI vendor has published this year: "One reason that the atrophy of coding skills is concerning is the 'paradox of supervision' … effectively using Claude requires supervision, and supervising Claude requires the very coding skills that may atrophy from AI overuse." Anthropic, the company whose primary product is the coding agent, is naming the structural contradiction at the center of the workflow it sells....