Are you still a dev lord or just chatGPT's lil" biyatch? Well the Dev Atrophy Test aims to uncover who out there still has the raw dog coding skills buried deep inside their AI-laced cerebral cortex.
Hi PH! We're a group of renegade devs who still remember the "good ol' days" of tearing our hair out for hours to eventually discover a missing closing bracket at 4am. We've been through the trenches of debugging without AI, scouring the interwebs, going on side quests, black holes, and building sh*tty things from scratch without a chatbot grabbing our nether regions. But get this straight - we're not anti-AI. We're anti-AI-dependency. There's a difference between using AI as a tool and using it as a replacement to think and struggle. We believe humanity should understand coding fundamentals so as they can still get sh*t done in a cave with no WIFI.
Great launch! A reminder for us to flex our 🧠 and watch out for the negative effects of apps and now AI in our lives. My poor brain is already atrophied for friends & family phone number and street names around my home 😳
"The Dev Atrophy Test is a brilliantly crafted, brutally honest, and hilariously savage way to measure whether your raw coding skills have survived the AI revolution, forcing you to confront the reality of your developer instincts without the safety net of tools like ChatGPT — all wrapped in a bold, meme-rich experience that keeps you entertained while delivering a much-needed wake-up call for modern devs."
It was fun taking the test. Also it looks like I have to reunite with the sweet old vanilla(CSS) 😆
Scrimba’s launch is a game-changer for dev education! Merging the IDE with video is a brilliant move . it closes the gap between passive learning and real practice. Instead of switching tabs or just watching someone code, learners interact directly with the content. This feels like the natural next step in online coding education hands-on, immersive, and super intuitive. Big win for devs of all levels!
Great initiative! Regular atrophy tests are essential for spotting dead code and improving long-term maintainability. 👍
I love how Scrimba lets me pause and code directly in the lesson it’s way more engaging than traditional video tutorials. Does the new Instant Feedback feature adapt to different coding styles, or is it based on a fixed set of solutions?
What score did you get...? drop it in the comments or better still post your Certificate 😜
At Scrimba, we're getting a front-row seat to the skill atrophy happening among developers. Time and again, I hear from students who dove too deep into vibe coding, only to realize they can no longer build things without Cursor by their side.
I'm not at all against vibe coding. It's empowering, fun, and productive. But muscles that aren't used eventually rot. And if you want to become a professional developer, you need a solid technical understanding of the tools you rely on.
That makes being a coding student or junior dev especially tough today. You have to strike a tricky balance: use AI just enough to move forward, but not so much that you forget how to think. Because one day, you’ll get lost in your own codebase and realize you’ve forgotten the fundamentals.
