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Published by Addy Osmani (T1.5 source). The original is at https://addyosmani.com/blog/agentic-skill-decay/.

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Addy Osmani observes that AI agents can complete tasks end-to-end without transferring knowledge to the user, so building expertise now requires deliberate effort rather than incidental learning through doing.

Names a specific failure mode of delegating work to agents — the silent loss of skill acquisition — that most agentic-workflow coverage ignores.

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