Atrophy
measure whether AI is eroding your unaided coding skill
Details
- External ID
- 48819234
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Atrophy
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI coding agents and developer tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- measure coding skill degradation from ai use
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A tool or quiz-like app to track unaided coding performance versus AI assistance consists of straightforward problem prompts, timed code execution, and metric tracking dashboards.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Concerns raised: Financial threat to OpenAI & Anthropic could lead to suppression, Methodology validity unclear, Long-term skill atrophy risk from AI usage
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1619 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1414 of 1620 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 251 days after the earliest competitor.
- alice_skill · github · 2026-09-23 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Reprompt · hn · 2026-03-18 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- AI writes code · hn · 2026-02-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- agenteval · hn · 2026-04-03 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Unspaghettit · hn · 2026-05-27 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- i-dont-believe-you · github · 2026-09-15 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Kasspian · hn · 2026-06-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- sloppy · github · 2026-09-10 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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- No other launches for this product.
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