Atrophy
measure whether AI is eroding your unaided coding skill
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HN · launched Jul 7, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: developer utility tools · 561 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -73% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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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 : 3664 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3324 of 3665 (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 0.66
- Viberuler · hn · 2026-10-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- no-slop · github · 2026-11-11 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Reprompt · hn · 2026-03-18 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- agenteval · hn · 2026-04-03 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- AI writes code · hn · 2026-02-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Unspaghettit · hn · 2026-05-27 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- awesome-ai-coding-tools · github · 2026-10-08 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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