TLDR: [AI promises] a future where we prize instant answers over teaching and understanding

But what this article and the comments don't say: open-source is mainly a quality metric. I re-use code from popular open-source repo's in part because others have used it without complaints (or document the bugs), in part because people are embarrassed to write poor-quality open-source so it's above-par code, and in part because if there are issues in this corner of the world, this dependency will solve them over time (and I can watch and wait when I don't have time to fix and contribute).

The quality aspect drives me to prefer dependencies over AI when I don't want full ownership, so I'll often ask AI to show open-source projects that do something well.

(As an aside, this article is about AI, but AI is so pervasive now as an issue that it doesn't even need saying in the title.)