Koen Van Belle, a test automation engineer who codes for a living, had been using the artificial intelligence large language model Copilot for about six months when one day the internet went down. Forced to return to his traditional means of work using his memory and what he had decades of experience doing, he struggled to remember some of the syntax he coded with.
“I couldn’t remember how it works,” Van Belle, who manages a computer programming business in Belgium, told Salon in a video call. “I became way too reliant on AI … so I had to turn it off and re-learn some skills.”
