[cowlby]

Yes my hot take is that the real risk isn't skill atrophy... it's failing to develop the new skill of using AI. It's all abstraction layers anyway and people always lament the next abstraction up.

0/1s → assembly → C → high-level languages → frameworks → AI → product

The engineer keeps moving up the abstraction chain with less and less understanding of the layers below. The better solution would be creating better verification, testing, and determinism at the AI layer. Surely we'll see the equivalent of high-level languages and frameworks for AI soon.