The Economic Times

3 years in software job, but cannot explain his own code: AI is killing 'critical thinking' skills even among professionals, says techie

A software developer with three years of experience says he has reached a troubling point in his career: AI can now handle much of his coding, but he struggles to explain what it has written. His Reddit confession about depending on AI for end-to-end tasks, code reviews and even writing his own post has triggered a debate among developers over a bigger question; when does an AI coding assistant stop being a tool and start replacing the thinking behind the work?