> Besides, your comment goes by the assumption that we no longer know (intimately) how to program - is that true? I don't know C or assembly or whatever very well, but I'm still a valuable worker because I know other things.

The proposal seems to be for LLMs to take over the task of coding. I posit that if you do not code, you will not gain the skills to do so well.

> I mean it could be partially true - but it's like having years of access to Google to quickly find just what I need, meaning I never learned how to read e.g. books on software development or scientific paper end to end.

I think you've misunderstood what papers are for or what "the previous generation" used them for. It is certainly possible to extract something useful from a paper without understanding what's going on. Googling can certainly help you. That's good. And useful. But not the main point of the paper.