Nobody Can Debug Without AI Anymore, and It’s Not Just the Juniors
· medium.com
A February 2026 METR study found most developers won't complete tasks without AI assistance at all, complicating the narrative that debugging dependency is a junior-developer problem. A look at what the research actually shows about who's losing the skill, and what the ones who aren't are doing differently.
Nobody Can Debug Without AI Anymore, and It’s Not Just the Juniors
A February 2026 METR study found most developers won’t work on tasks without AI assistan...