I don't think it's necessarily that it makes you worse; it's that it defeats the purpose of the exercise.
Like, I'm sure there are some professional CNC operators who are also very, very good at doing things by hand. But they didn't get good at doing things by hand by using a CNC machine to do everything that can be done on a CNC machine. And, based on what I observed growing up in a down-and-out manufacturing town, the people who decided that CNC is the way of the future and went all in on just being very, very good CNC operators are the ones who got hit hardest by the growth of industrial automation in the 1990s and 2000s.
I have similar concerns about Copilot. In the short term, yes, it lets you get relatively straightforward tasks done more quickly. But I suspect that people who make heavy use of Copilot risk plateauing at a lower skill level and ultimately being the people whose jobs are most vulnerable to the growth of technologies like Copilot.
Like, I'm sure there are some professional CNC operators who are also very, very good at doing things by hand. But they didn't get good at doing things by hand by using a CNC machine to do everything that can be done on a CNC machine. And, based on what I observed growing up in a down-and-out manufacturing town, the people who decided that CNC is the way of the future and went all in on just being very, very good CNC operators are the ones who got hit hardest by the growth of industrial automation in the 1990s and 2000s.
I have similar concerns about Copilot. In the short term, yes, it lets you get relatively straightforward tasks done more quickly. But I suspect that people who make heavy use of Copilot risk plateauing at a lower skill level and ultimately being the people whose jobs are most vulnerable to the growth of technologies like Copilot.