--- title: "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good" url: https://daily.dev/posts/is-ai-ruining-our-skills-early-results-are-in-and-they-re-not-good-bg6pyh9x2 source_url: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1 type: article source: "Lobsters" published: 2026-06-21T13:08:21.792Z updated: 2026-06-21T13:08:45.868Z tags: ["ai-coding", "anthropic"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Emerging research suggests AI tools are causing measurable skill degradation in professionals who rely on them. A study of Polish endoscopists found adenoma detection rates dropped from 28.4% to 22.4% when AI assistance was unavailable after they had grown accustomed to it. An Anthropic-designed randomized controlled trial with 52 software engineers also investigated whether coding skills erode with AI assistant use. Surveys show 70-77% of healthcare workers fear over-reliance on AI. Researchers are calling for more studies and urging professionals to reflect on which skills they want to preserve versus outsource. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AI may cause you to forget some skills](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-may-cause-you-to-forget-some-skills-g6kuvxac6) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills](https://daily.dev/posts/how-ai-assistance-impacts-the-formation-of-coding-skills-imfilsn9p) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/is-ai-ruining-our-skills-early-results-are-in-and-they-re-not-good-bg6pyh9x2)