It’s Not the AI. It’s How You Use It

Chapter 5 Deep-Dive: The Comprehension You Trade Away Companion document to “Software Development in the Agentic Era” By Mike, in collaboration with Claude (Anthropic) The main guide’s Chapter 5 says agents make skill atrophy worse, not better: the more the AI does, the less you engage, and the less equipped you become to evaluate what it produces. That’s the right instinct. But “AI rots your brain” is now a genre, and most of it overshoots — generalizing from one EEG study, tre...