By your definition in this comment chain, no one ever loses skills. You can relearn any skill whenever you want! That’s an odd way of framing the idea. Relearning a skill that has decayed from a lack of practice is still a lot of effort, it’s not some trivial thing that should be thought of like riding a bike. If you went back and tried to learn Spanish, you’ll find it’s going to take many dozens or possibly hundreds of hours to regain the skill you lost. Now, let’s apply that to the entire software development industry. People becoming overly reliant on chatbots are seeing their skills degrade fairly rapidly, in not much time at all they’ll be incapable of what they used to be able to do. That might be fine! Or, that might mean that we are building up a debt that we are going to have to pay for later, like when the chatbot breaks something it can’t fix and no one knows how to fix it anymore either. That skill will have to be relearned, and in the meantime it’ll be broken because the computer can’t do it for them. By the way, did you hear ArchiveOfOurOwn.org is going to be down for almost a month because something went wrong? I’m sure that’s unrelated.