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My post about an MIT programming experiment resonated with many of you and led to a lively debate 🗣️. It\u2019s clear that while we agree mastering a domain requires serious dedication 🎓, there’s less consensus on which skills we need to master in the era of AI assistants 🤖. This debate has two main perspectives:<\/p>\n On the one hand:<\/p>\n \u2022 Some believe English will replace traditional programming languages like Java or Python 📝. Natural language becomes the new abstraction layer. There is no need to understand the output of the AI. Clearly articulating the desired outcome in English is becoming the essential skill. <\/span> Others believe that:<\/p>\n \u2022 The abilities of large language models are overestimated. The user interface of OpenAI\u2019s newest model (o1) uses words like \u201cthinking\u201d and \u201cunderstanding\u201d but it does no such thing ❌. [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/denayer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ProgrammingIsObsolete.jpg” _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” title_text=”Programming Is Obsolete” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" while we agree mastering a domain requires serious dedication, there’s less consensus on which skills we need to master <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\u2022 Any limitations in current coding assistants will soon be overcome by more powerful AI models 💪.
\u2022 Detractors live in denial and are just afraid that their hard earned skills are now obsolete.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Developers remain instrumental in understanding the business domain, designing the software architecture, and breaking down the problem into smaller parts that the AI can handle (write code for) 🔧.
\u2022 Developers also still need the skill to understand the AI generated code because they have to validate its quality and they will have to maintain it 🛠️.
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