Comment by fastball
2 hours ago
What I meant by "will they?" was "will they any more than a human already needs to in order to understand other humans?"
I don't think this is legibly that different from human behavior, so if new graduates didn't need those things now why would they need them later (or vice versa).
It's probably true that many programmers in the future will get away with a similar lack of fundamental knowledge that today's programmers get away with. To some degree, we all have blind spots, but I think if agentic processes are here to stay, as long as humans remain in the loop at all it would serve us to master a semantic capability closer to that of the models we work with, lest we lose control either in taste or in a manner more serious. The most effective engineers will understand that.