I am trying to stay on the cutting edge, but I feel like this statement is untrue. I think we’re still in the sort of assembler/hacker/nerd era of AI coding. DevEx is going to change rapidly over the next few years. I’m hoping that we’ll get tools / languages / frameworks that essentially abstract the entire concept of a multi-agentic workflow away from you.
It’s like saying if you don’t learn CGI scripts in C you’ll be too far behind. Plenty of people started web development with Ruby on Rails.
And in fact I’d argue there’s lots of folks - sysadmins, low level developers that didn’t adapt well to change, the best strategy is probably get started but stay flexible, try to ride the wave but don’t overdo your investment into this generation of tools.