AI can be stubborn and frustrating. Can Drupal become an AI harness that steers humans and AI, both inside and outside Drupal, toward success, without Drupal losing its openness, stability, and scalability?

I know this blog post's title implies losing my (programming) skills, and I will gladly address my feelings about how agentic coding has caused my problem-solving and coding to atrophy from lack of use. The main focus of this post is about losing, specifically deleting, my overly verbose and complicated skills and AGENTS.md files.

Do you feel you are losing your coding skills when working with a coding agent, or do you see other skills emerging as you experiment with AI?

I was starting to feel weighed down by token and cost anxiety, but everything shifted when OpenAI cut the price of GPT 5.6 Luna by 80%. This dramatic drop in cost per token completely transformed how I choose and use models for Drupal development.

Think of AI as the new kids on the block/team you onboard every morning and offboard at the end of the day.

https://www.jrockowitz.com/blog/vibing-drupal-new-kids-on-the-block

See how I start with the statement "AI is making great programmers even greater and not-so-great programmers, well, not-so-great" and somehow end up concluding that everyone needs to be open to "vibe coding" with Drupal.

AIs are eating our websites, and we need to adapt by bringing AI into our website to enhance our content and user experience and provide a five-star dining experience.

I recently released a module called the AI Schema.org JSON-LD module, which I built with AI in 4 days. It replaces a key part of my Schema.org Blueprints module that I worked on for 4 years. AI ate my work, and I need to be okay with that.

Learn about my new AI Schema.org JSON-LD module, which generates structured data to "feed the machines"

I am continually experiencing both successes and failures while playing in my Drupal (AI) playground. I decided to keep things useful, simple, and achievable by building a Plugin Report module using AI.

I am continually experiencing both successes and failures while playing in my Drupal (AI) playground. I decided to keep things useful, simple, and achievable by building a Plugin Report module using AI.

Wednesday, April 8 @ 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT - Virtual

I think we are seeing the beginnings of a Drupal AI developer experience initiative. I am looking forward to attending.

Learn about my experience building a module and contributing back to Drupal using Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex.

Learn how installing some Drupal-specific skills increased Claude Code's reliability when 'clauding' in my Drupal (AI) Playground.

I am starting to explore how to incorporate AI into my Drupal development workflow by creating a Drupal (AI) Playground. My first step was to bake some installation recipes, but it did not go as planned.

There is a subtle bait-and-switch here: I am going to talk about my experience coding with AI in Python, but the lessons learned apply to Drupal and the broader challenges developers face when coding with AI.