That's my sentiment as well. It seems you can actually go lower and it's so sad and I think at some point that will turn into dangerous as well... The amount of people that actually care what happens when you run code is miniscule. They don't understand that code is not some ideal abstraction. Code actually exists and executes in the real world on real hardware.

A week or so ago I gave a talk at a game jam discussing some of these topics and most of the audience being people in their 20's didn't understand or give weight to what I said at all. Only a few people from that big audience came after and expressed interest to learn more. Hope is not lost, but we have to actively push back and fight against the nonsense that comes from all sides.

I can't wait for the AI, AI bros and hype surrounding it to crash and burn in a few years. It's not that these new technologies are not useful - they are. And they have their place, but quality matters. DO NOT SURRENDER YOUR FACULTIES TO "AI". You get good by struggling! If you don't want to get good at this - then don't do it anymore. As another comment in another thread around code snippets said earlier - "No snippets, no LLMs, no autocomplete".