I don't think not using assembly is going to affect my brain / my life quality in any significant way, but not speaking / chatting with someone is.

But this is a strawman argument, it's not what the research is talking about.

If LLMs were as reliable as compilers we wouldn’t be checking in their output, and I’d be happy to forget all programming lore.

The “skill domain” with compilers is the “input”: that’s what I need to grok , maintain , and understand . With LLMs it’s the “output”.

until that changes, you’re playing a dangerous game letting those skills atrophy.

Isn't it both on LLMs? The input is your ability to craft a prompt, the output is checking if the prompt worked.