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Anthropic2026-02-03

How AI Impacts Skill Formation

Judy Hanwen Shen, Alex Tamkin·Paper

Randomized experiments show that heavy AI reliance during unfamiliar tasks impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant productivity gains.

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