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In my own development work, I have a ruleset for Claude around duplicate code. Building a new feature, Claude changed 1500+ lines of code. It confidently reported that it had checked for duplicate code. It had not. I found a function yearPeriod() that had been duplicated three times. Claude eventually reported that it had written five.
I caught it because I still read all of the changes. I still look for code smells and other surprises.
If GenAI is right 95% of the time, how do we maintain the skill to recognize the cases where there is a mistake? Even harder, how do we train the next generation to have a sense of correctness in the first place?
In regulated fields like medicine and flying, this is a well recognized problem. When we automate a task and don't practice it, we lose the skill.
GenAI-induced skill loss isn't inevitable. Practice the skills you intend to maintain. Make it a choice, not an accident.