Comment by pmarreck

If you are concerned that embedding "from first-principles" reasoning in widely-available LLM's may create future generations that cannot, then I share your concern. I also think it may be overrated. Plenty of people "do division" without quite understanding how it all works (unfortunately).

And plenty of people will still come along who love to code despite AI's excelling at it. In fact, calling out the AI on bad design or errors seems to be the new "code golf".