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With the garbage collection aspect, I do want to point out that eventually people rediscover the benefit of lower level ways to do things and instead come up with improved methods of doing them. See how Rust and Zig have been gaining in popularity for example as a modern alternative to C/C++. As you said, learning how to write in such languages also yield benefits in general as you learn to be more efficient.

Old ideas being new again happens all the time. It's easy to get masked by the new hotness before the disadvantages start to pile up and you need to do a more honest evaluation on the pros and cons of each technique. For example with garbage collection, turns out computers are actually still dog slow today in an absolute sense and squeezing performance is still worth it (people who want to argue otherwise and say "computers are lightning fast", please tell me why a video game cannot render 4K / 120 fps even today, or why an LLM takes months to train with a gazillion GPUs, or why VSCode loads slower than an old copy of Visual Studio on an ancient machine).

I think AI / LLM will probably stick around, but programmers who have become too reliant on them will eventually be filtered out much quicker than people who bother to learn to program well and retain more useful skillsets (even if they end up using LLMs themselves).