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maybe so but most of the code produced is low quality, so what do we have to lose?

Not to call you out specifically but I cannot believe people still use this as an argument in 2026. As if someone writing bad code while at least trying to learn how to write good code, and a prompter prompting a computer to write bad code that leads to the person learning nothing from the exercise are at all analogous.

I can virtually guarantee the bar for code can go so much lower as we rapidly deskill programmers.

Think pragmatically about the volume of software products produced in the last 20 years, and the quality of those products. Not just exceptional consumer facing products like Apple, but all of the low quality business bookkeeping crapware gluing industry together.

We actually have a fabulous opportunity to generate much higher quality code products with AI.

And even in your case, with the eager AI student -- AI code education is much better than reading docs and struggling with tools. Students can now focus on the important software topics.

I remember my intro C++ classes and how many students stumbled on pointless & transient tooling , that was completely orthogonal to their proper engineering skills.

Now students can focus on their area of expertise and produce the highest quality possible without any resource restrictions.

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