[loveparade]

Okay, but most of the time you can't prompt your AI to successfully debug you out of problems if you don't understand code. Or when you do the AI will solve the problem in a way that creates a dozen more cascading problems an hour later. I've also been coding for 20 years now and I feel like my coding skills are just as important now as they were 10 years ago. Without them I'd never be able to use AI effectively.

The only exception really are greenfield apps like "create a toy todo app demo" or "scaffold this react project" but that's like 0.001% of real world engineering work.

[everfrustrated]

True, but it very much depends on the domain and complexity of stack you're working in. For a lot of crud type dev work the problems are common to many and AI will have no trouble.