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What Do We Lose When AI Does Our Work? — Developer Essay on Craft, Agency, and the Cost of Delegation
Rick Yean's essay 'What Do We Lose When AI Does Our Work?' hit Hacker News on May 4, exploring the less-discussed costs of AI delegation: loss of craft knowledge, diminished problem-solving intuition, and erosion of the agency that comes from struggling through hard problems yourself. The piece resonates alongside the earlier 367-point 'Agentic Coding Is a Trap' discussion, forming a growing counter-narrative thread in the developer community about what practitioners sacrifice for speed. The 10-comment HN thread is small but substantive.
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