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Sources for Skill atrophy in coding

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Anthropic · January 2026 Provider research experiment

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills (original source, new tab)

Randomized study of 52 mostly junior developers learning a Python library; short-term quiz results do not establish long-term industry-wide decline.

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