Well said. This sums up my own feeling. I joined this craft and love this craft for the simple ability to build beautiful and useful things.

This new world makes me more effective at it.

And this new world doesn’t prevent me from crafting elegant architectures either.

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croes 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Wait 5 years and your skills are down

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Ronsenshi 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think 5 years is necessary. I think after two years of this agentic orchestration if you rarely touch code yourself skill will degrade to the point they won't be able to write anything non-trivial without assistance.

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SoftTalker 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Depends how long you've done it, and how much the landscape has changed since then. I can still hop back into SQL and it all comes back to me though I haven't done it regularly at all for nearly 10 years.

In the web front-end world I'd be pretty much a newbie. I don't know any of the modern frameworks, everything I've used is legacy and obsolete today. I'd ramp up quicker than a new junior because I understand all the concepts of HTTP and how the web works, but I don't know any of the modern tooling.

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AstroBen 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How much do you think Linus Torvalds has coded over the last decade? Why is he still able to do his job?

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		https://github.com/torvalds
	▲	esafak 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		His job is reviewing.

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dham 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What infrastructure has gone through the last 15 years would like a word.

Half the people I work with can't do imperative jQuery interfaces. So what I guess. I can't code assembly.

	▲	croes 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A programming language is still an additional language with all the benefits of being multilingual. AI will kill that.

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Xenoamorphous 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In 5 years coding skills will matter as much as being able to operate an elevator. (sadly)