Coding bot vendor: coding bots are bad for you

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/06/ai-coding-makes-you-worse-at-learning-and-not-even-any-faster/ - blog post

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Sources:

• How AI Impacts Skill Formation https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
• How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
• Trio: a friendly Python library for async concurrency and I/O https://github.com/python-trio/trio

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• AI coders think they're 20% faster — but they're actually 19% slower https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/11/ai-coders-think-theyre-20-faster-but-theyre-actually-19-slower/
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