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What's amusing to me here is it's a dev comparing the "old approach" of learning via StackOverflow to learning via LLMs. My generation of programmers disrespected SO as dumbing down learning because so many devs were just copy/pasting the top answer instead of understanding it - it was faster so of course they did. LLMs are the same: worse but faster. So the article is not wrong, but it doesn't realise they're fighting a losing battle, one that we fought & lost already. https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-learning
There's also the possibility that every previous gen of developers is just wrong about how bad the next gen is at development. Maybe we were wrong about SO, and maybe they (and us) are wrong about LLMs. Fortunately I have no skin in the game anymore, having banished myself to the fringes and not having any students / juniors to train anymore. They'd probably just roll their eyes at the old man anyway 
@sinbad A close friend is a distinguished hardware engineer. There's always a nice bit of grounding in a chat with him about the ridiculous overhead of C.
With certainty someone somewhere is and have been ranting about similar observations of the context of his work. And they're probably technically right as well.