You could argue the same with high-level vs low-level programming languages. But I do get that English is so abstracted and non-deterministic that we're kinda clueless of what's going on. At the same time, I do think that maintaining code does require some level of understanding. And unless you straight up one-shot something perfectly, you still want to test manually and tweak with a few more prompts, adding a level of 'how does this work?'.

This is also freeing up time to explore things that before you wouldn't have been able to even start. New fields in tech are opening up. It's all about the model, compute, plugins, third parties... and more to come!

And this is not limited to code, but also how the world works. It's all being abstracted into prompts. Funnily enough, I'm also learning that way...just taking less time to get to the point. But this is not the first time we go through this. Eg. Google vs a library. And like anything, if no one knows anything anymore how do we distinguish from one another? There's a level of wanting to understand in order to distinguish ourselves from the rest in the serendipity of everyday life.

Call me naive, but something tells me we're going to start being much more open to just exploring the world with all this time we just bought ourselves thanks to technology. We were always gonna get to this point and there'll undeniably be bumps ahead.