I think what this means is that we are likely to see a next generation of software engineers that heavily lean on AI to "learn" programming and we will have to re-train them to some degree when they get into the workforce to be able to actually know the skillset they supposedly learned.

It also means that whiteboard problem solving for coding interviews is going to continue to be a great test to separate out students who actually know how to write a basic for loop and function and those who don't because Co-Pilot "always does it for them".

I know which kind of new grad I want working with me...