What Happens When Everyone Can Build Apps But Nobody Understands Them?

Watching a non-coder build a working app in an afternoon with AI prompts triggered a real reckoning: the output exists, but the mental model doesn't. The gap between shipping something that works and understanding why it works — or why it breaks — is widening fast. The real divide ahead isn't AI users vs. non-users; it's builders who use AI as a scaffold toward understanding versus those who use it as a permanent shortcut.