A wand should extend the wizard’s reach, never replace the wizard’s mind. There is an uncomfortable possibility hiding inside every tool that makes us faster: eventually, we may become less capable without it. Software engineers have lived with versions of this problem for decades. Integrated development environments remember syntax, frameworks abstract away infrastructure, libraries package difficult algorithms, and search engines place decades of accumulated knowledge within seconds of our keyboards. Artificial intelligence simply pushes that progression much further. It can now write functions, explain unfamiliar code, generate tests, propose architectures, diagnose errors, and transform a vague requirement into something that looks remarkably close to finished software. That capability is enormously…