Confession time: I use agentic coding all day, every day. It makes me much more productive.
But I am also terrified of skill atrophy, I feel like I need to break out pen & paper to force myself to "weight-lift" mentally so I don't forget how to think.
How do y'all handle this?
The weirdest observation: I generated movies visualizing the polytope boundaries for ReLU networks using Muon and AdamW.
Same experiment, same data, same random seed. The difference is the "crease pattern" that the optimizers produce.
With age, the male body produces less testosterone but more advice.