AI made developers faster. Is their judgment keeping up?

> I’ve been sensing a real anxiety amongst developers over the past year or so around skill and knowledge atrophy. We know that AI tools like Cursor and Claude make developers faster – or at least feel faster – but at what cost? > > Brian and his fellow researchers have now given that anxiety a name: the hollow orchestrator. A developer can easily find themselves approving more work each month, without becoming better equipped to judge it.