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Show HN: Atrophy – measure whether AI is eroding your unaided coding skill

Atrophy is a command-line app that regularly gives you small coding exercises to solve without AI help, grades your solution, maintains a skill rating (like chess Elo), and charts changes over time. It covers five skills (syntax recall, debugging, code reading, API memory, decomposition), supports Python and JavaScript, adapts difficulty, and provides a comparison chart between unaided and AI-assisted performance.

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Show HN: Atrophy – measure whether AI is eroding your unaided coding skill
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  • Atrophy requires you to solve coding exercises without AI, auto-grades them, and tracks your skill rating over time
  • Covers five core programming skills, supports Python and JavaScript, and adapts difficulty automatically
  • Provides an "unaided vs AI-assisted" comparison chart to visualize dependency
  • Fully local, no data upload, privacy-focused, with openly discussed research background and limitations

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