'Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance' takes 520 points on Hacker News
larsfaye.com (Lars Faye)·low signal
Lars Faye's follow-up to his May essay 'Agentic Coding is a Trap' hit the Hacker News front page on August 24 with 520 points. His argument is a loop: you need strong coding skill to supervise an agent well, and supervising agents is exactly what erodes that skill, so 'you won't get the next wave of seniors.' He also frames it as industry-scale vendor lock-in, developers paying for tokens to do what used to be their own thinking. Marked low because the site returned 403 to direct fetches this run, so the body text could not be verified beyond the HN submission and search excerpts.