I asked 4 working engineers this exact question on my podcast: a Google Developer Advocate (Stockholm), a Senior Software Engineer/consultant (Paris), an NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Instructor (Morocco), and an Infrastructure Engineer at IBM (Dublin).Here's what they actually said:- The Senior Software Engineer said: "LLMs are babies. If you don't understand the architecture behind everything, you won't be able to follow."- The Google advocate pushed back slightly: "Writing code has become a commodity, like car manufacturing after automation. The question isn't whether to learn to code, it's why you want to."- The IBM infrastructure engineer had the most actionable take: "Don't treat AI as a ghostwriter. Never commit code you can't explain. Use it as a tutor, not a replacement for your own thinking."And many moreWe also reacted to a clip of a Silicon Valley exec telling university graduates that "AI is the next industrial revolution" and getting booed by the crowd.One of the more so...