LLMs Are Making Me Lose My Savviness
A seasoned software engineer reflects on how AI assistants have drained the joy from building. Once a passionate maker who thrived on learning through hands-on problem-solving, he now finds himself bored, reduced to prompting and evaluating outputs. He argues that relying on LLMs erodes the hard-won savvy that comes from making mistakes, and warns that this could lead to a generation of engineers who never truly learn.
The point was never just going from A to B. The point has always been to have fun while going from A to B, learn something new along the way and gain savvy.