It's going to be a different kind of focus.

Technologies are regularly predicted to diminish a capability that was previously considered important.

Babbage came up with the ideas for his engines after getting frustrated with log tables - how many people reading this have used a log table or calculated one recently?

Calculators meant kids wouldn't need to do arithmetic by hand any more and so would not be able to do maths. In truth they just didn't have to do it by hand any more - they still needed the skills to interpret the results, they just didn't have to do the hard work of creating the outputs by pen and paper.

They also lost the skill of using slide rules which were used to give us approximations, because calculators allowed us to be precise - they were no longer needed.

Computers, similar story.

Then the same came with search engines in our pockets. "Oh no, people can find an answer to anything in seconds, they won't remember things". This is borne out, there have been studies that show recall diminishes if your phone is even in the same room. But you still need to know what to look for, and know what to do with what you find.

I think this'll still be true in the future, and I think TFA kind of agrees, but seems to be doing the "all may be lost" vibe by insisting that you still need foundational skills. You don't need to know the foundational skills if you want to know what the answer to 24923 * 923 is, you can quickly find out the answer and use that answer however you need.

I just think the work shifts - you'll still need to know how to craft your inputs carefully (vibe coding works better if you develop a more detailed specification), and you'll still need to process the output, but you'll become less connected to the foundation and for 99% of the time, that's absolutely fine in the same way it has been with calculators, and so on.