Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice
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Yeah but if they don't write code they won't learn. A lot of coding isn't really like learning to drive a car and once you know how you're done, it's a persistent lifelong accumulation of experience in architecture.
The field absolutely will suffer a skill collapse when the existing generations of experienced pre-ai programmers phase out. There is no replacement mechanism in the system and the industry is young enough to have never even had to think about this problem ever occurring.