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Coding is going to be mediated by these LLMs everywhere — you’re right about that. However, as of today, and for some time, practitioners will be critical partners / overseers; what this looks like today in my workflow is debugging, product specification, coding the ‘hard bits’, reworking / specifying architectures. Whatever of these fall of the plate in the coming years, you’ll never lose your creative agency or determination of what you want to build, no matter how advanced the computers. Maybe give Iain Banks a read for a positive future that has happy humans and super-intelligent AI.

We have working fine cabinet makers who use mostly hand tools and bandsaws in our economy, we have CAD/CAM specialists who tell CnC machines what to build at scale; we’ll have the equivalent in tech for a long time.

That said, if you don’t love the building itself, maybe it’s not a good fit for you. If you do love making (digital) things, you’re looking at a super bright future.