[sgarland]

It’s that, and the fact that precious few people seem to understand fundamentals anymore, which is itself fed by the desire to outsource everything to 3rd parties. You can build an entire stack where the only thing you’ve actually made is the core application, and even that is likely to be influenced if not built by AI.

The industry is creating learned helplessness.

[Froztnova]

The other troubling thing is that if you do invest time into learning fundamentals, you'll be penalized for it because it won't be what you're interviewed on and probably won't be what you're expected to do on the job.