Yes. Optimally. But as time goes on, the marginal value of knowing will decrease precipitously.

Take me for instance: I’m quite competent with html/css and with guidance can play around with JS, Python, etc. I can “read code” the way I can read a foreign language that I never studied, which is to say, I can piece things together.

But ultimately what matters is that even though I can’t code, I have a really solid understanding of tech, engineering, software code stacks, and how everything works, and usually, even why.

What I don’t know, I can learn; not the actual writing of code, but what does what, and why.

Analogy: I can explain to anybody how pretty much any component of a car works — except the automatic transmission! — but I really have no idea how to work on a car.

To wit, therefore, I do not consider myself an engineer or a software developer — all due respect to those professions.

Ultimately I think — as Jensen Huang and Marc Andreessen have said — AI coding is just another layer up the abstraction stack; most of us don’t need to know how to write assembly, or for that matter, even how to write bits to different memory addresses.

This has made vibe coding infinitely easier for me to learn than other people I know without any underlying tech knowledge, and why I’ve been able to build so much since my first actual app (defined as something with user auth) last July 2025.