Corollary: there will now be a new generation of programmers who will never know the joy of building, designing, or debugging a system by hand, using their own thinking in collaboration with other humans.

Just today I suggested to a very junior engineer (more of an FDE, really) to write a short design / implementation proposal on an infrastructure change that spans about 8-10 code reviews. He replied with a link to a short, Claude artifact, clearly written by AI.

It dawned on me: to him, this approach of offloading thinking and understanding to AI, from design to implementation, is totally natural. He sees nothing wrong with his job being reduced to a middle-man between more senior engineers and AI.