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There’s also the uncomfortable reality that a lot of people spent a lot of time learning how to do things that anyone can prompt now…

We tend to ignore that reality but it hangs above all these discussions like a dirty cloud

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That does not seem like it should be controversial. I have known for quite a long time that a motivated high school kid could learn to code well enough to be perfectly useful. Especially with popular languages like Python.

This is just an object lesson for everyone who thought all that software guys did was write code that there is just a little bit more to the job than that. Actual developers should already have known.

Hard disagree. That’s like saying just because you can type 200 words per minute you’re a better writer than Shakespeare.

I took that as exactly his point. Learning the syntax of Python or C++ or whatever isn't particularly hard. If reading the manual or being the one guy in the company who knew how the yamls worked was your "moat" then your career was built on sand. The challenge has always been leveraging that use of the tool into actually doing something useful with it.

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