There's an education gap that needs to be addressed, but I don't know how it will get addressed. A lot of the web in the past few decades came from industry so industry had a way of training up people. Most of this ML stuff is coming from academia, and they aren't really the best at training up an army at all.
It's hard to know who to blame for all of this because it's kind of like not having an early warning asteroid detection system. HN or various communities did not have discussions even five years prior to GPT about the impending doom (no early warning at all). If you just take HN, we sat around here discussing a million worthless things across Rust/Javascript/startup b.s for years like headless chickens (right here on the frontpage) without realizing what was really to come.
Makes me wonder if the places I go for tech news are enough to be prepared. Which brings me back to what I quoted:
We’re creating a generation of developers and engineers who can use tools brilliantly but can't explain how those tools work.
We aren't creating them. They are the existing devs that had no idea AI was going to be a thing. Had anyone known it was to be such a thing, everyone would have ditched going to web development bootcamps in the mid 2010s.