[vunderba]

Couple notes

1. I'm not convinced that 20 upvotes on a hacker news thread is indicative of trends in the industry at large

2. As an amateur pilot who just got their PPL, it's also a rather unsubstantiated take.

Most pilots do not understand how their planes work at a fundamental level (it's an entirely separate discipline known as aeronautics). They understand how to operate the plane, how to respond to real world situations, etc. but one could just as easily claim that's essentially analogous to a software engineer understanding how to perform basic debugging on frameworks such as React, Angular, etc.