Comment by mycall
3 days ago
It will be the future for sure, software as a tool for everyone.
While there is something lost in prompting, people will always seek out first-principles so they can understand what they are commanding and controlling, especially as old machines become new machines with new capabilities not even imaginable before due to the old software complexity wall.
It's exactly as you say: software as a tool for everyone and it's hard for programmers like me to accept that because I've spent so much time, read so many books, and work so hard perfecting my craft.
But smart programmers will realize the world doesn't care about any of that at all.
We will remain to be programmers but at a higher abstraction where code is just the glue to our means and imagination.
As a hobby I suppose. There's a very real chance there won't be enough paid work available for that
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