Why AI Makes Software Fundamentals More Expensive Than Ever

Introduction There is a message circulating in the dev world that's intended to be comforting, but it's actually a bit of a trap. It’s the idea that in the age of LLMs, your hard-earned engineering skills are becoming obsolete. That we are moving toward a "Specs-to-Code" world where you just write a prompt, the AI spits out the app, and you never have to look at the "cheap" code underneath. I’m here to tell you the opposite: Software fundamentals matter now more than they actually ever have. In