[Kon5ole]

>It could. It could make a simple note-taking app not take gigabytes of memory and take visible delay on each click.

But the taste that tells you a note taking app should be fast doesn't come from your knowledge of assembly. It comes from using the app.

Being able to have an AI generate 8 variants of an UI and 5 variants of a storage mechanism is more helpful to reach the goal of a good note-taker. Trying out those prototypes and tweaking them to perfection is also friction, only it happens closer to your actual goal than doing quicksort in assembly.

There are of course examples where the friction does help, and where the "aid" of the tool deteriorates useful skills, but I think that will sort itself out over time. Useful skills will remain, useless ones will disappear, as they always have.