I think the real sadness is that many developers may stop learning the deeper fundamentals — the things that AI can't replace.

When people start relying on the "I just want it to work this way" mentality and let AI take over, they can lose track of how things actually work under the hood. And that opens the door to a lot of problems — not just bugs, but blind trust in things they don't understand.

For me, the joy is in understanding. Understanding what each part does, how it all fits together. If that disappears, I think we lose something important along the way.

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vedmakk a day ago | parent | next [-]

But in a way a 90s assembler dev would argue that todays developers are not understanding how things work "under the hood" at all. I guess with each generation we just abstract to higher layers and solve bigger problems while just "relying on things under the hood to work just fine".

	▲	silentpuck a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, that’s a fair point. Abstraction is part of progress — and we do rely more and more on things “just working.” But that trust can be dangerous when we don’t even know what we’re trusting. And when something breaks, it can leave us completely blind. I’m not saying everyone needs to go all the way down to the metal — but I do think it’s important to at least understand the boundaries. Know what’s underneath, even if you don’t touch it every day. Otherwise, it’s not engineering anymore — it’s guessing. And I’ve never been good at just “believing” things work. I need to poke around, break them, fix them. That’s how I learn. Maybe I’m just stubborn like that.

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notorious_pgb 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is definitely the core issue from my perspective.