[JumpCrisscross]

> wonder how much more productive our economies could be if everyone was taught programming

Prompt engineering is turning coding problems into language problems. It’s conceivable that humans writing code becomes artisanal in a century.

[h0l0cube]

> humans writing code becomes artisanal in a century.

At the pace we’re moving at now we’re talking a few decades away at the most, well within most peoples’ career span. I feel sorry for any junior coder just entering the industry.

[vermilingua]

Coding problems have always been language problems

[JumpCrisscross]

> Coding problems have always been language problems

Pedantically, sure. The field ChatGPT is most impactfully commoditizing is low-level coding. Instead of someone giving natural language instructions to a team of humans, they're increasingly able to give them to an LLM. It's an open question how far this can scale. But we may be near the zenith of the practicality of large-scale coding expertise.

[vermilingua]

The field C is most impactfully commoditising is low-level coding. Instead of someone giving opcodes to a CPU, they’re increasingly able to give them to a compiler. It’s an open question how far this can scale. But we may be near the zenith of the practicality of large-scale coding expertise.

Pedantic, maybe, but “coding expertise” isn’t going anywhere.