What skills have developers actually lost to coding agents? A hand-written migration took 40 minutes instead of 10
trvklhn666 · reddit · 2026-09-20
A developer asks what skills people have genuinely lost since relying on agents, with two concrete examples: forced to hand-write a migration while the agent was down, it took 40 minutes versus the usual 10; and CodeRabbit now catches missing null checks in diffs, so he reads its comments instead of the code — a lost skill or a moved one? He explicitly frames it as a genuine question rather than doom-posting, asking for real examples beyond "the joy of programming".
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