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AI is hurting engineers.

Many new engineers think the AI is smarter than they are. It's not.

You're paid to think about the problem. One important way you learn to think about the problem is to go through the exercise of writing code—especially the boring parts early in your career.

So if you're new to this, turn off Github Copilot and struggle on some of it for longer than is comfortable. Learning takes place at the edge of comfort.