{"id":1999,"date":"2025-06-17T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bytescove.com\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2026-10-03T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:42:54","slug":"the-ai-dilemma-are-we-slowly-forgetting-how-to-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytescove.com\/it\/the-ai-dilemma-are-we-slowly-forgetting-how-to-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Il dilemma dell\u2019AI: stiamo dimenticando come si programma?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In April 2025, Satya Nadella said that AI was producing up to 30% of code in some Microsoft repositories<\/a>. The number matters less than the direction: more production code is being drafted by systems that developers did not write. That raises a practical question: if machines produce more of our code, how do engineers keep the judgement needed to understand and verify it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue affects how we train developers, review changes and maintain systems over time. Faster generation is useful only when the team can still explain the design, detect mistakes and own the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rise of code we didn\u2019t write<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

AI tools aren\u2019t new, but their role has changed fast. GitHub Copilot can now finish your thoughts before you do. Other tools debug your app without waiting for your input. What used to be \u201csupport\u201d is now more like a co-pilot, and in some cases, it\u2019s flying the whole thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It makes sense why so many teams are adopting it. Faster delivery, in some scenarios fewer bugs, less boilerplate. But there\u2019s a line between saving time and giving up ownership. And that line feels blurrier every month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When using replaces learning<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For decades, learning to code meant figuring things out the hard way. Breaking stuff. Starting over. Solving problems with logic and persistence. That\u2019s where a lot of developers built their confidence, I am one of them, line by line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, things are shifting. Newcomers are sometimes dropped straight into AI-assisted environments. Instead of learning how to build, they\u2019re learning how to prompt. It\u2019s a different skill, I am not sure is necessarily a bad one, but it changes the foundation of what it means to be a software developer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real concern? When the code works, but nobody knows why. When a junior dev sees a block of AI-generated logic and shrugs, trusting it must be fine. That\u2019s not development, it\u2019s outsourcing understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why it matters more than ever<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s not kid ourselves, AI\u2019s not going away. It\u2019s already reshaping how we work, and it\u2019s going to become even more baked into our toolchains. But we still need people who understand what\u2019s going on under the hood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because here\u2019s what happens when we stop paying attention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quality suffers. AI is good at pattern-matching. But handling edge cases? Making judgment calls? That\u2019s still on us. Ethics get murky. A machine doesn\u2019t think about bias, accessibility, or unintended harm. That kind of thinking has to come from humans. Innovation slows down. AI can remix what already exists. But new ideas? Bold design choices? Those still come from human minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s also a long-term risk. If only a small group of people can still read and reason about code, we lose transparency. And once that happens, who\u2019s left to challenge or improve what these tools generate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not a fight. It\u2019s a partnership.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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This isn\u2019t about throwing out AI tools or pretending they\u2019re the enemy. Far from it. Used well, they free us up from the boring parts and help us focus on the work that actually needs a human brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we have to keep the fundamentals alive. Developers, especially the next wave, should learn both how to code and how to work with AI. Not one or the other. They should be curious enough to question what the machine suggests and confident enough to fix it when it\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we do this right, AI becomes an amplifier, not a replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s at stake isn\u2019t just code<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This moment is bigger than productivity gains. It\u2019s about the kind of engineers we\u2019re becoming and the kind of software we\u2019re going to build in the years ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can embrace AI. We should. But not at the cost of forgetting how things work. Because if we stop learning how to build, we\u2019ll eventually stop being able to fix or even understand what we\u2019ve built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when that happens, we don\u2019t just lose control, we lose the craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should use the tools. We should stay curious. And above all, we should not forget how to code.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve hit a strange point in software development. If machines are writing more and more of our code, are we still learning how to do it ourselves?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[83],"tags":[71,70,81,82,36],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-developers","tag-development","tag-github"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t