Certainly the population of people that need to know how something works is much smaller.

But even still, cognitive debt is a real, documented phenomenon where we lose our ability to change projects.[1]

We also know coding agents tend to accumulate slop in projects over time without some human intervention[2]

There's also the concern of whether its a good idea to be dependent on an addictive slot machine run by a trillion dollar company to do your work.

1 - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/

2 - https://www.scbench.ai/