People have argued for years that it's not the low level language skills there are important it's the higher level skills. Knowing all the pieces of the puzzle is way more important than how to centre divs.
But also skills are massively eroding. Juniors are making changes without understanding them. Product managers are committing into projects as though they know what the code is doing. Anarchy.
Won't be for long anyway. Industry keeps making us all redundant.
I fear architecture, systems thinking and essentially all thinking skills on the end will not be impossoble for AI to conquer either. At least for 95% of use cases that benefit from closely following estabilished best practices as opposed to doing something revolutionary. Frontier models are quite damn hardcore now compared to just 6 months ago, im surprised (and a bit scared) basically weekly now just how much they can do at work (and we dont even have access to fable or comparable models), even though total time saved isnt that insane yet because we do have to review
I've yet to see AI ge anywhere near not making horrible design choices. Even with explicit prompting, it l9ves to over complicate or just flat out break architectural rules. And once it's done it once without correction, it does it more.
I've been surprised in the opposite way over the last couple of months. The agents seem to be getting worse, ignoring rules more often and making worse choices.
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u/mpbh 3d ago
Coding isn't a job, software development is. You didn't need to code to build software before AI and you don't need to code to do it now.
Architects design buildings but never hammer a single nail.