When calculators became common, people lamented that we'd forget how to do long division.

But how important is that really?

In my statistics class in high school, every time we learned a new concept, we'd have to execute it once, by hand, to develop the finger feel of what was happening.

Thereafter we could use our calculator, which allowed us to focus less on the mechanics of calculating it and more about interpreting what the result means.

Programming is kind of similar: it's useful to know how to interpret or even write very simple assembly.

But after that, it would be silly to actually write stuff in assembly.

Coding with LLMs will be the same.

Of course you should do it a few times to develop a situated intuition and know that if you had to pop the hood you wouldn't be totally lost.

But then focus on the higher level of abstraction.