Comment by mppm
20 days ago
> So if I can outsource the mundane, annoying and repetitive parts of SW development (like coding) to a machine, so that I can focus on the parts I enjoy (debugging, requirements gathering, customer interaction, etc), what's wrong with that?
That's ok when you already understand programming and can guide the codegen and step in to correct when it generates bullshit. But you don't get to that level without learning programming yourself. Education is built from the ground up towards higher and higher levels of abstraction. You don't get to skip learning arithmetic on your way to learning quantum physics, just because numpy will do all your arithmetic once you get there. In other words, it's ok for people who don't like cooking to order takeout, but you don't become a professional cook this way.
>Education is built from the ground up towards higher and higher levels of abstraction.
How many people who write SW professionally worldwide, know everything about the OS underneath, the sys-calls, disassembly, memory allocation, CPU architecture, network layers, internet routing, cloud and virtualization, etc?
Most SW jobs are just routine plumbing, connecting one FOSS pipe to another in whatever way works for you, till you get the desired result which often is unoptimized slop but if it serves the business use case and makes money nobody but the cool-aid drinking stickler developers care that it's slop. It's not rocket science that requires you to know assembly or CPU architectures or linear algebra and optimize ever single bit to perfection, but low cost and time to market is more important.
You can try to educate people about everything but not all jobs are gonna require you to know everything. In fact, jobs are being more and more specialized where you'll have one HW expert, one networking expert, one compiler expert, one typescript expert, one GoLang expert etc.