Introduction There is a message circulating in the dev world that's intended to be comforting, but it's actually a bit of a trap. It’s the idea that in the age of LLMs, your hard-earned engineering skills are becoming obsolete. That we are moving toward a "Specs-to-Code" world where you just write a prompt, the AI spits out the app, and you never have to look at the "cheap" code underneath. I’m here to tell you the opposite: Software fundamentals matter now more than they actually ever have. In fact, after teaching "AI for Real Engineers", I’ve realized that if you treat code as cheap, you'll quickly find yourself drowning in "software entropy." The "Specs-to-Code" Fallacy We’ve all tried it. You give the AI a spec, it generates code. You find a bug; you update the spec and run the "compiler" again. What happens next? The first version is okay. The second version is slightly worse. By the fifth iteration, you have absolute garbage. This isn't coding; it's "Voodoo Coding".…