[beej71]

It seems like throughout human history, every piece of technology has had a complete chain of human knowledge for how it worked. No one person knows how to build an EV starting from dirt, but someone knows each step in isolation.

With LLMs, some people are claiming that the time for understanding code is over, and that leaves a gap in the chain of knowledge. I can't think of a time when such a gap has been adventageous, and can certainly think of times when it has come with risk or loss. Many of us have seen this manifest at small scale when the one person with obscure system knowledge leaves a company without adequate prior knowledge transfer.

At large scale, well, I think it will be a great time to be a dev who knows how to hand-code.