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Sources for Erosion of professional judgment

2 sources

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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.

Lee and colleagues · CHI 2025 Worker survey

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking (original source, new tab)

Self-reported effort and confidence; not a causal test of permanent cognitive decline.

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