Coding agents speed up output, but low-level engineering experience still matters, argues AI educator
omarsar0 · x · 2026-10-07
In a reply thread, AI educator Elvis Saravia (DLAI) argues that working at higher levels of abstraction has always required understanding the layers below, and coding agents don't change that: agents accelerate output, but creative, well-thought-out human input — built on years of low-level experience — matters just as much.
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