I have a book club at work where we often read programming / business related books. We're currently reading 'The Programmer's Brain' (which I highly recommend

I have a book club at work where we often read programming / business related books. We're currently reading 'The Programmer's Brain' (which I highly recommend) and thus far the principal argument in the book has been to work on the building blocks / foundation of a language to improve as a developer. I think part of that is by understanding the basics, you will be better able to tackle the difficult things when the time comes. It's interesting to see the somewhat conflicting suggestions of this book and the argument that something like ChatGPT / AI can be leveraged to solve the simple problems. We kind of discussed it a bit in the book club. For example, few programmers today worry about assembly / very low level solutions...it's just kind of back of mind / expected to work. I wonder if that will be true for programmers in the future, in relation to the foundation of a particular language. And if so, will the increased usage of AI be a positive or negative thing for the workers in the industry.? From what I can tell, management / C-Suite seems to be pretty open to adoption and it's the developers that seem to be a bit more reluctant. Maybe that reluctance is coming from a place of concern about self preservation or maybe it's a valid concern about things like AI hiding / solving some of the fundamentals that allow one to learn the foundations of something...foundational knowledge that might make the more useful for solving the more complex problems. I haven't really used AI...so maybe this observation is coming from a place of ignorance. It'll be interesting to see how things work out.