> If you were on a plane flight with no wifi, and you wanted to do some dev work locally on your laptop, how comfortable would you be vs if you had done all that work yourself rather than via Claude?
Probably about as comfortable as I would be if I also didn't have my laptop and instead had to sketch out the codebase in a notebook. There's no sense preparing for a scenario where AI isn't available - local models are progressing so quickly that some kind of AI is always going to be available.
So then the argument isn't so much that skill decay isn't an issue but rather that the skill is inherently worthless moving forward. I'm not sure I agree, but I also got a compsci education because I have loved doing it since childhood rather than because I just wanted to make money, and I can see how the latter group would vehemently disagree with me.
Probably about as comfortable as I would be if I also didn't have my laptop and instead had to sketch out the codebase in a notebook. There's no sense preparing for a scenario where AI isn't available - local models are progressing so quickly that some kind of AI is always going to be available.