Being able to debug and diagnose difficult problems and distributed systems still remains a key skill, at least until Opus or some other model gets better at it

Being able to debug and diagnose difficult problems and distributed systems still remains a key skill, at least until Opus or some other model gets better at it. I think being intentional about learning while using AI to be productive is where the stitch is, at least for folks earlier in their career. I touch that in my post here as well: https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/19/software-engineering-when-the-machine-writes-code/ https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/19/software-engineering-whe...