Indeed teach kids today how to properly type into a textbox to create entire web and or mobile digital experiences. Teach them also how to type into a textbox to create songs, graphics, art, etc.
For us it's seems so uninspring because what we are used to is now the old way of digital creation/execution. It's a big change many aren't thrilled with including myself which I should because I can now create all my crazy ideas on my own without hiring back-end or iPhone developers as previously have done for my startups. Yet, i am unspired by this new way even when I used Codex to create a few of my ideas already (soon i will be starting my new healthcare career after 17 years in research/design & web dev).
The world has changed.
This is not a genie you can put back in a bottle.
I am all for change yet when the change makes your tech skills feel irrelevant as it opens the field to anyone who can type I do not see a rosy employment picture. I was use to being in a field where my knowledge/skills/experience were highly sought after and in demand. Now that doesn't exist anymore but it does in other in demand fields like blue collar workers and healthcare (at least for now).
I find this popular take so very odd. For me, LLMs make my dev skills feel more relevant than ever?
I can create things in a few months that would have taken years of work by a small team to do before, for less than the cost of buying pizza.
For me it’s as wonderful as good compilers. Today reminds me of when it was no longer necessary to hand code machine language, then it was assembly that winked out in favour of strong compilers. Those skills were all superseded by higher levels of abstraction, just like coding is giving way to system engineering.
Of course if you don’t keep ascending the abstraction ladder, or your vision doesn’t accommodate the requirements of the next rung up, I guess that must feel more like an end than a beginning.
One day, I suppose, there won’t be any more rungs to reach for and we will all be truly be obsolete. At that point, we will have achieved and suffered the goal of all life, to give birth to a generation that replaces us and makes us irrelevant, I suppose. That will be, I think, both a triumph and a tragedy. A disaster if we don’t make sure it isn’t, if we lose our humanity in the becoming.
But I think we aren’t quite there yet.