At this year's Global Day of Coderetreat (GDCR2025) our guest facilitator Ivett decided to ban AI tools. The result was a classic Coderetreat, like in the old days. It struck me in the retrospective that some participants said that they were unable to code by hand any more. They had a hard time working without their agents, and some ignored the constraint and kept using AI throughout the day. This is my empirical evidence that we lose the ability to code. (There is more evidence, recently by Ant...