I respectfully disagree with you. Learning the basics of programming is as important as fundamental math nowadays. Everybody must develop a basic understanding of how computers work. That's common knowledge these days. "AI does it for you" is a similar argument as "Wikipedia knows it for you". That's just false belief in technology. Hand writing and learning stuff by head did not get out of fashion, too.
It's like saying every programmer should know assembly or know how to punch machine instructions on cards. Or in order to be able to jump-start your car you need to learn how to build car batteries from scratch. Silly right?
We progress by abstraction. Everything you are using right now is a complex abstraction of the base materials and instructions. AI that builds stuff for you (and possibly itself?) will be just another level of abstraction for "programmers".
Traditional imperative programming has been there since almost 50 years and it will be there in 50 years. Programming languages come and go, but the general spirit is the same since the early days of computing. I like your car example: One day or another, you need to refill gas or the oil, change your tires, fill up the windscreen cleaning liquid, or understand that your V-belt broke. You can pass all this on a very surface level, just as a driver. But you will be much more confident when you learned that your car has a motor and gears and all that. That's the very reason we learn math today despite we have calculators since decades.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 22.6 ms ] threadWe progress by abstraction. Everything you are using right now is a complex abstraction of the base materials and instructions. AI that builds stuff for you (and possibly itself?) will be just another level of abstraction for "programmers".