The friction is why so many people never make it far up enough the learning curve to build something useful that solves their problems.

You could say the same thing about learning to fly a plane or play the piano. I’ve got no problem with people using llms to write useful utilities and programs for themselves, but it is leading us into a world where people are creating powerful things they don’t understand. That’s going to have consequences. We are already witnessing some of them.

Both things are true simultaneously. The friction taught me things I wouldn't have learned otherwise; and the reduced friction is the only reason I got far enough to encounter that friction in the first place.

I still debug production issues manually. I still read error logs line by line. The AI got me to the starting line faster but it didn't skip the/my race.