You're Using AI to Learn Faster. That's Exactly Why You're Not Learning
The most powerful learning tool in history has a hidden default setting. It is making developers shallower. Here is how to break it deliberately.
I watched a developer on my team debug for forty-five minutes last month.
Not because the bug was complex. It was a classic async state race condition, the kind every senior developer has burned themselves on once and never forgets. He spent forty minutes pasting error messages into Claude and cycling through suggestions without understanding any of them. He spent the last five minutes, after I sat down with him, actually reading the stack trace.
He fixed it in under two minutes once he read it.
Here is the uncomfortable part: he is not a bad developer. He is smart and motivated. But he had been trained, by the tools, by the culture, by the incentive structure of modern software development, to reach for AI before...
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