In the AI era of development, you might not need to know every single development framework under the sun.
But you should still know the ones you are asking AI to build – afterall – whose going to be fixing the bugs?
Problem identification has, and always will be, important and will never go out of style. Being able to look at an issue and break it down – “this is important but not urgent” is a skill many lack.
Debugging is going to be the #1 skill of any developer – how quickly and efficiently can you diagnose an issue with a piece of code – written by you or someone else?
And next on the horizon will be performance tuning – “Great, I have this AI prompt or generated framework that no longer performs when we scale up? How do we make it better?”
Same skills you needed before, just wrapped in a different package.