The weak AI code gen we had until late last year was most useful to low-skill programmers -- it was raising the floor. It was essentially useless to high-skill programmers -- you could move faster and ship better code without.

This has been completely flipped: the strong AI code gen we have now is *most* useful to high-skill programmers, while low-skill programmers are vastly underutilizing it or sometimes drowning in it. It went from a crutch to a power tool.