When I started programming as an intern 7 years ago, I asked simple questions around the office and they told me to just google it. My approach was to understan

When I started programming as an intern 7 years ago, I asked simple questions around the office and they told me to just google it. My approach was to understand every single bit that goes on, but it seemed like nobody truly knew what they were doing. Fast forward to today, the new programmers I meet don't truly understand what the code does. If a problem pops up, the first action is googling it for hours. Very few people have this high level structured thinking ability to filter out the noise to distill a problem. I believe Ai will accelerate this, where programmers will know even less about what goes on in the program and struggle more when stuff doesn't go as expected. Over the years, google became less useful as all the SEO spam took over. I noticed how people couldn't come up with solutions on their own, as a google search yielded no results. Now I read these articles every other month about another tool, framework or article announcing the end of programming as we know it. Nothing ever happened and truly experienced developers became even more valuable. If we cross this fine line between aiding and replacing developers, we set ourselves and the next generation up for a bad time in my opinion...