Exactly.

And it's not just programming, it's in every career, artistry, journalism, etc.

When barriers are extremely low, one side effect is you no longer have the passionate people as easily rise to the top.

You have a shit load of people with surface level or worse understandings of things in charge.

See the following:

Parts of Hollywood from studios to directors, nepotism and mbas nearly ruined cinema.

Gaming companies often sell out to go public or allow themselves to be bought by soulless corps, this often but not always goes very very wrong.

The music industry is RIFE with plants, nepotism, and absolute garbage music.

Now programming is opened to the masses.

And you even have people like Linus Torvalds taking what I think is a stance that likely makes sense for him, but is such a damning thing to openly say because people take Torvalds use of AI as a blanket "look he uses it so it must be ok" where there is SO much nuance.

I miss times before AI lol