> the juniors who start today don't have that, they overrely on agentic coding and do not know what they don't know

Y'all need to stop worrying about the kids.

They're smarter than us and will run circles around us.

They're going to look at us like dinosaurs and they're going to solve problems of scale and scope 10x or more than what we ever did.

Hate to "old man yells at cloud" this, but so many people are falling into the trap because of personal biases.

While the fear that "smartphones might make kids less computer literate" is true, that's because PCs are not as necessary as they once were. The kids that turn into engineers are fine and are every bit as capable.