>imagine that using AI coding assistants will lead to a similar result, albeit in developing software rather than in navigating the physical world. [...] I susp

>imagine that using AI coding assistants will lead to a similar result, albeit in developing software rather than in navigating the physical world. [...] I suspect developers using these tools will get more and more out of touch with their own code bases, with the libraries they're using to develop, and eventually, with the code they write themselves (with the help of the AI). As with Google maps, we'll lose an important dimension to our reasoning. Anyone who isn't handwriting assembly has already walked pretty far down this road. And even assembly is just translated by a machine into the microops that are the real program.