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by saltyoldman 87 days ago
I could have elaborated, but long term this line of work is dead. Will there be software engineers in 20 years? Can't tell you, but it won't be in the millions like it is now. Will those people KNOW a programming language? probably not. At some point the sheer amount of capabilities of agents will just keep going up and us humans are still writing buggy code. Waymo just declared that it's drivers are something like 13x better than human drivers... Agentic has only been around for what, 1 years maybe 2 if you count closed betas.
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r_lee 87 days ago
"Will those people KNOW a programming language? probably not. "

if I'm able to learn all kinds of stuff in just a few hours, why would programmers 20 years from now not know programming languages?

just doesn't make sense.

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saltyoldman 87 days ago
Yes, you could. Have you bothered learning how to wash your clothes with a washboard sitting next to a river? No, instead you using a washing machine (I presume).

There won't be much of a reason to learn a programming language at some point in the future.

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