[nphardon]

I think the idea that it's important to know how to code is going to be seriously challenged. I know I feel like the learning process and insight I gain is important, but I wonder if it is, beyond the subjective.

Like I'm sure the grad students working for Euler learned a ton generating logarithmic tables by hand, but it proved to be useless in the end. Could having a solid grasp on memory management/access in C be the same?

I think this is why obsolescence can be hard to predict.

Like if in 30 years all code is run and managed by ai bots, then all this debate about "it's important to know how to code!" will seem really silly.

[mangamadaiyan]

> Could having a solid grasp on memory management/access in C be the same?

Perhaps not when the code is getting written (by yourself or by an AI).

When you're dealing with a memory leak in production (yes, they can and do happen), or worse -- if you're dealing with a drop in performance -- good luck with the vibe debugging.

Maybe there will be a time not too far off in the future when the stochastic cockatoos become sentient enough to do all of this by themselves, it's sure as hell not happening tomorrow.

Oh, and logarithmic tables were still a useful thing as late as forty odd years ago :)