Comment by roncesvalles

Not really.

>A master like antirez had to wrap his head around concepts alien to the human mind. Bits, bytes, arrays, memory layout, processors, compilers, interfaces, abstractions, constraints, types, concurrency do not exist in the savannas that forged brains.

You still need to know these things if you're doing anything more complicated than making some CRUD dashboard. LLMs assist with some code generation, and assist with some knowledge lookup. That's pretty much it.

What seems to be the case is that you need to know everything you needed to know before, and* become good at leveraging AI tooling to make you go faster.

*Even this is optional. There is absolutely nothing stopping anyone from just ignoring everything about AI and keep developing software like pre-2022. The efficiency difference isn't even significance in the grand scheme of things. It's not like people had reams of perfect software specs just lying around waiting to be implemented. That's just not how people develop software; usually the spec emerges while you're writing the program.