[yawpitch]

Oh the many, many ways this will go wrong.

The world ended not with a bang and not with a whimper… in the end, it was the sound of someone double clicking on a file written in a language the person “vibing” it couldn’t read and didn’t understand.

[Bocajmai]

It could go so wrong, but the vectors for disaster are already innumerable in this world we live in.

I prefer to think about the ways it could go right. To empower people to create is the very purpose of computers, no?

[Capricorn2481]

Let's empower a gorilla to handle a chainsaw and see how that goes.

[yapyap]

Yeah, but does this really empower people?

Of course ‘letting someone do what they want’ seems like it’d be the most empowering thing, what’s more empowering than free will. But doing it this way will not give you any knowledge or skill, if you’d ever need to code without an AI or would need to understand a deeper concept you’d have no ground to stand on.

Basically it’s the instant gratification vs delayed gratification but for programming. Is instant gratification empowerment? maybe for a moment.

[jbombadil]

I agree. This is empowering people to program in the most superficial level. It’s about volume, not quality. It’s the same vein in which social media “empowers” social relationships.

It’s not that it won’t help anyone. But what will be the second order effects if it becomes the norm? And I’m not talking just about “jobs”. I’m talking about the growth and empowerment that comes from learning, the critical thought process, etc.