AI Is Making You Dumber: The Hidden Cost of Vibe Coding and Skill Atrophy
michalmalewicz · x · 2026-09-26
Blogger michalmalewicz argues AI—including vibe coding—is making users dumber, himself included. We spend more hours prompting and fewer actually thinking, letting skills atrophy. He likens it to designers unable to work when Figma goes down, asking what happens when your favorite model has an outage.
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