After: millions of vibe coders and only an elite few that dig all the way down to metal
I'm not sure the world will be all that different. The people who want to dig will still exist, they'll just be using excavators instead of shovels.
Do you think Linus needs to write any code anymore? What kind of problems do you think a guy like Linus chooses to work on, the easy ones or the hard ones?
Tools change, people stay the same. Some people have never felt the rush of solving a really hard problem that no one else was able to solve. Such people can't understand that the fun is in the work not just the outcome. They can't understand that some people love to work. And for a person who loves to work, new tools are a joy.
Not if the tool takes the joy out of work, and no one get a chance to learn that it is possible to have joy in the work...
in a long forgotten past, this used to be the crowd that digged.