The AI Rebound Effect and the Transition to...

The reaction to the recent Claude AI outage reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how developers should interact with artificial intelligence. Reports of developers feeling entirely unable to work without their AI assistant point to a dangerous trend of „deskilling“. John Nosta accurately describes this as the „AI rebound effect“, where improved performance masks a rapidly declining foundational ability. If an engineer relies so heavily on a probabilistic model that they cannot function when