Nvidia CEO predicts the death of coding

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4 points·sirsinsalot··4 comments

This is a really ridiculous take that is created from sound bites. What he's says is not that coding will no longer exist, but that the purpose of computing is not coding but to solve interesting problems. We will only find interesting problems by having deep domain knowledge. Huang only argues the same as Steve Jobs, a computer is a bicycle for the mind:

https://youtu.be/ob_GX50Za6c?si=XseM8a5KTfrUkw08

And some of that domain knowledge will still rely on deep knowledge of computer systems, networks and the like.

This headline is being shared far and wide, don’t teach your kids computer science. Though I’m sure that would benefit NVIDIA in the medium term to have a generation fully reliant on services which use its products, it would definitely bite us as a species long term

It reminds me of cloud computing PaaS type stuff.

Yeah, you don't need to know sysadmin ... but you move that burden into paying more per GB/hour/... you pay for _someone else_ to know it for you, and encode that in the platform.

Look at how much AWS costs vs renting an actual server.

Sure, an LLM may be able to code something decent-ish up, but you're going to end up paying 10x or 100x the cost for a solution made by someone with knowledge.

They say kids don't need to code so its the time to learn to code.

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