Are AI coding assistants making developers better or dangerously dependent?

[Dom9]

AI coding assistants are now good enough that ignoring them feels stubborn, but relying on them too much feels risky. They can speed up boilerplate, explain unfamiliar libraries and find obvious mistakes, yet they can also produce confident nonsense that looks correct until it breaks something subtle. For experienced developers they might be a force multiplier, but for beginners I wonder if they are skipping the painful learning stage that actually builds skill

[WhatUQuant]

They make good developers faster and bad developers more dangerous. That is the uncomfortable truth

[Velvet Connor]

I use them daily, but I still read every line. Treating AI output like trusted code is asking for trouble

[Undertaker92]

Beginners should use them as tutors, not vending machines. Ask why, not just what

[FridayFeeling]

The dependency risk is real. I have already seen people freeze when the assistant gives a bad answer