@searls Time will tell, but I’ll play the optimist and wager the opposite: that the assistive boost from LLMs will help less-skilled programmers up-level much more quickly. In part, because it should force new programmers to gain the skill of *reading* code sooner than they otherwise might. (And: cargo-culters gonna cargo cult; a wrong answer copied thoughtlessly from ChatGPT and a wrong answer from StackOverflow feel roughly equivalent to me.)