Developers on Hacker News are debating an emerging workplace tension: AI coding agents dramatically accelerate work, but exclusive reliance on them risks atrophying the skills you spent years cultivating. One developer asked the community how to maintain hands-on coding ability while leveraging AI for speed. The underlying question: how do you stay sharp when you've automated the sharpening?

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