What strikes me is that AI can also be the best teacher in the world: your Makefile is not working, you ask the LLM what's wrong, you learn something new about the syntax, you ask for more details, you learn more, you ask about other Makefile syntax gotchas, etc. This is the most efficient deliberate practice possible: you can learn in minutes what would take hours of Googling, tinkering and scouring docs. You have a dedicated teacher you can ask your silliest questions to and have the insight you need "click" way faster.

The problem is: (almost) nobody does that. You'll just ask Claude Code to fix the build, go grab a coffee and come back with everything working.

There are two sides to each coin though. For an employer, that grind is just additional cost that could be reduced by "AI".

It's like the difference between hand-made furniture and IKEA.

Until OpenAI etc need to turn a profit.