> you can learn arithmetic without memorizing your multiplication tables

How? If you don't learn multiplication tables you're multiplying on the go. And that's inefficient

Also, this isn't the right analogy. I get where you're coming from.

We move on to the higher form. Like we don't need to code in binary, or assembly language We got C, Python. We then got compilers.

But LLMs are just english. There is no skill here in writing the prompt. "Give me a crud app that does xyz" is hardly a skill

Tomorrow if AI data centers fail then what do we do of the typing skills?

When we shifted from Assembly to Compiled languages or to Python. We still had to learn something else

Here, using AI, its just English.