In the Age of Coding Agents, Understanding Fundamentals Still Matters

Developer @trq212 argues that working at higher abstraction levels has always required understanding lower ones, and coding agents don't change that—a view echoed by AI educator Elvis Saravia, sparking debate over whether beginners still need to learn fundamentals in the agent era.

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