As a developer, I agree with this. Huang may play a marketing game here, but he’s right. “Coding” isn’t something humanity needs to do, because coding in textbooks and coding in reality are two different things. Our IRL coding is a bunch of self-inflicted and cheered complexity and an artificial barrier that secures the jobs. AI has a very good potential to distill coding back to the essence and then some more. Not the current AI, but 2024 isn’t the last year of humanity either. So coding isn’t dying, but coding as we know it should die anyway. Should have, long ago, but it’s so compelling to just stay in a comfort zone of being a software developer. He claims everyone will be a coder, and that I find realistic. Of course people incapable of even easiest levels of “STEM” will exist, but the bar will lower dramatically.
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As a developer, I agree with this. Huang may play a marketing game here, but he’s right. “Coding” isn’t something humanity needs to do, because coding in textbooks and coding in reality are two different things. Our IRL coding is a bunch of self-inflicted and cheered complexity and an artificial barrier that secures the jobs. AI has a very good potential to distill coding back to the essence and then some more. Not the current AI, but 2024 isn’t the last year of humanity either. So coding isn’t dying, but coding as we know it should die anyway. Should have, long ago, but it’s so compelling to just stay in a comfort zone of being a software developer. He claims everyone will be a coder, and that I find realistic. Of course people incapable of even easiest levels of “STEM” will exist, but the bar will lower dramatically.