--- > I felt less competent at doing what was quite basic software development than a year or so before. All of a sudden, it made it very clear to me how reliant I had become on AI tools. Anytime I defined a function, I paused in my editor to wait until the AI tools would write the implementation for me. It took some effort to remember what the syntax was to write unit tests by hand. ... It was quite clear that because I did not practice the basics often, I was less capable with the harder parts as well. --- > Defining seniority is a very tough thing. Though in my opinion a lot of being a “senior” is in soft-skills, when it comes to the technical hard-skills, a lot comes down to Fingerspitzengefühl. The longer you work with a language, framework or codebase, the more you develop this kind of intuition of what the correct approach is. The gut feeling of “something feels off” slowly turns into a feeling of “this is what we should do”. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jradye45zq4km3r3y9ar8mt9) ---