Do software fundamentals still matter?

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• Central question: does AI coding assistance make traditional software fundamentals obsolete? Answer: no — they matter more, not less.
• Reprises “software entropy” accelerating under AI-generated code without architectural discipline — echoes the April “De-Slop A Codebase” video.
• Frames good design patterns as being for the AI’s benefit as much as the human’s: a codebase AI can navigate well produces better AI output.
• Takeaway: fundamentals aren’t legacy skills being displaced by AI — they’re now a precondition for getting good results from AI.