I agree with the general premise - the risk is we don’t develop juniors (new Alices) anymore, and at some point people are just sloperators gluing together bits of LLM output they do not understand.

I have seen versions of this in the wild where a firm has gone through hard times and internally systems have lost all their original authors, and every subsequent generation of maintainers… being left with people in awe of the machine that hasn’t been maintained in a decade.

I interviewed a guy once that genuinely was proud of himself, volunteering the information to me as he described resolving a segfault in a live trading system by putting kill -9 in a cronjob. Ghastly.