> Now, if you can steer an LLM reasonably well, you can quickly build an MVP that goes well beyond your own understanding of the implementation.

Pre-LLM, I'd distinguish between e.g. "I know Python" and "I know this codebase". So if I wrote a codebase in Python I'd be familiar with it, if someone else wrote a codebase in Python I'd be familiar with the Python. -- An LLM coding agent can give a codebase in Python very quickly.

With a newbie, they'd be familiar with neither; but an LLM coding agent can give them a full solution written in Python.

I'd say that this power from LLM coding agents blurs the distinction, in some sense. But to an extent it's always been the case that abstractions allow programming without a full understanding of everything down to atoms.

People 'can' learn faster than they used to. But I'd think those who are curious to learn will be able to have better results than those who only have a shallow understanding.