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Agreed. It takes skill.

3 engineers at my job were fired because all they were doing was pasting Jira ticket links on Claude without further curation and generating horrible PRs.

So I don't buy that it takes no skill.

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it seems like an eye of the beholder issue, for some writing is natural and others are dreadful at it but the former don't feel any particular burden in performing, it feels seamless to them. so maybe the disconnect is when framed as a skill, it sounds like something one must practice but I don't think that's the case: if you can decompose problems, think of 2nd order effects, debug, etc you are there. in other words, I would never think to use AI as you have described above (copy & paste).

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