# Agentic Skill Decay

DevFeed: [Agentic Skill Decay](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/agentic-skill-decay-55611.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://addyosmani.com/blog/agentic-skill-decay/>)

Author: Addy Osmani

Published: 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Addy Osmani](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/addy-osmani.md>)

Topics: [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [Prompt Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prompt-engineering.md>), [decision-making](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/decision-making.md>), [Learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/learning.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [prompting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prompting.md>), [software-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineering.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion argues that AI agents can complete software tasks without building the user's expertise. Developers should deliberately practice forming hypotheses, making decisions, specifying work, steering agents, and verifying results to preserve deep expertise and practical judgment.

## Source excerpt

Agents can finish the task without teaching you anything. Building expertise now has to be deliberate.