🧑‍💻 Will AI cause coding to disappear?

AI is not a binary off/on thing, like many of the industry commentators like to think. Many of us are already using AI to improve our productivity. For me, Perplexity has largely replaced Google search.

Technology has always brought productivity gains: ASM -> C -> Code generators -> Libraries -> OSS -> Google search -> Zephyr -> etc. AI is just another step.

Coding has always been the easy part. Requirements, innovation, collaboration, architecture, integration, debugging, etc. -- these are the hard parts. There will always be a place for skilled humans ... people with intuition, creativity, experience, taste, vision, and style. People who see and can do what does not already exist.

If all you do is translate well-defined requirements into code, then yeah, I'd be worried. However, there is a lot more that needs to be done that is of much higher value, and not enough people to do it. Step up!