> But there is something to be said about atrophy. If you don't use it, you lose it.
YMMV, but I didn't ride a bike for 10ish years, and then got back on and I was happily riding quickly after. I also use zsh and ctrl+r for every Linux command, but I can still come up with the command of I need to, just, slowly. Ive overall found that if I learn a thing, it's learnt. Stuff I didn't learn in university, but passed anyways, like Jacobians, I still don't know, but I've got the gyst of it. I do keep getting better and better at the banjo the less I play it, and getting back to the drumming plateau is quick.
Maybe the drumming plateau is the thing? You can quickly get back to similar skill levels after not doing the thing in a while, but it's very hard to move that plateau upwards
Dont you see the survivorship bias in your thinking?
You learnt the bike and practiced it rigorously before stoppping for 10 years, and you're able to pick it up. You _knew_ the commands because you learned the them the manual/hard way, and then used assistance to to do it for you..
Now, do you think it will apply to someone who begins their journey with LLMs and doesnt quite develop the skill of "Does this even look right?!", and says to themselves "if LLMs could write this module why bother learning what that thing actually does?" and then get bitten by it due to LLM hallucinations and stare like a deer in headlights.
YMMV, but I didn't ride a bike for 10ish years, and then got back on and I was happily riding quickly after. I also use zsh and ctrl+r for every Linux command, but I can still come up with the command of I need to, just, slowly. Ive overall found that if I learn a thing, it's learnt. Stuff I didn't learn in university, but passed anyways, like Jacobians, I still don't know, but I've got the gyst of it. I do keep getting better and better at the banjo the less I play it, and getting back to the drumming plateau is quick.
Maybe the drumming plateau is the thing? You can quickly get back to similar skill levels after not doing the thing in a while, but it's very hard to move that plateau upwards