I've a similar history of AI use as you but every so often I simply describe what I want and try out what it creates. Honestly in these past 2 years the pace of improvement has been stunning.

Yesterday I was inside one of the tools that a just build it prompt created and I asked it to use a NewType pattern for some of the internals.

It wasn't until I was in bed that I thought why? If I'm never reading that code and the agent doesn't benefit from it? Why am I dragging my cognitive baggage into the code base?

Would a future lay vibe coder care what a New type pattern is? Why it helps? Who it helps?

I think the pedagogy of programming will change so that effective prompting will be more accessible.