Comment by palata

> If they can get the AI to make working code and explain why it works, do they need to know more than that, unless they want to be top in their field?

Making working code is the easy part. Making maintainable code is a completely different story.

And again, being able to explain why something works requires superficial knowledge. This is precisely why bugs pass through code reviews: it's hard to spot a bug by reading code that looks like it should work.