Young developers

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Claim #1: younger developers does not understand systems as well as older developers.

Me: I think this is true. Over the last 10 years I have seen a decline in technical skills from beginners in various programming fora.

Claim #2: this is due to:

companies not investing in junior developers (expecting them to be productive from day 1)
AI generating code without the developer needing to understand the code

Me: I agree with those two, but I would add a couple more:

learning a very high level language (Python, PHP etc.) instead of something closer to the hardware (C, assembler etc.) feed a black box view of computers
social media and reality TV has created a general mentality of "looking good is more important than being good" - and that is really bad in programming