"[...] bottleneck isn't in writing the code. It is in reading and understanding the code". 100% agreed! Furthermore, the more code is generated by AI, the fewer people will actually understand it!
Generally, software engineers already have little to no understanding of the code that's actually being executed. We're so used to high- and higher-level abstractions like C, Go, Python, and JavaScript that we forget that we're already working with mostly-deterministic symbolism in a process that more closely resembles invoking magic spells than writing machine code. One more level of abstraction is not the end of software engineering.
Generally, software engineers already have little to no understanding of the code that's actually being executed. We're so used to high- and higher-level abstractions like C, Go, Python, and JavaScript that we forget that we're already working with mostly-deterministic symbolism in a process that more closely resembles invoking magic spells than writing machine code. One more level of abstraction is not the end of software engineering.