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Wait 5 years and your skills are down
by croes 9mo ago
Wait 5 years and your skills are down
- Ronsenshi 9mo agoI 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.
- SoftTalker 9mo agoDepends 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.
- AstroBen 9mo agoHow much do you think Linus Torvalds has coded over the last decade? Why is he still able to do his job?
- esafak 9mo agoHis job is reviewing.
- Xenoamorphous 9mo agohttps://github.com/torvalds https://github.com/torvalds
- dham 9mo agoWhat 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 9mo agoA programming language is still an additional language with all the benefits of being multilingual. AI will kill that.
- Xenoamorphous 9mo agoIn 5 years coding skills will matter as much as being able to operate an elevator. (sadly)
- shimman 9mo agoIt won't be 5 years, it'll be less than a year. When you don't exercise, your muscles atrophy. It's the same for any other skill. I use to speak conversational french in college, fast forward 10 years later and my understanding is no different than a casual "Emily in Paris" fan. It'll be the same here, the only question is if those that do exercise will be able to command better salaries. I think this is possible but not with the current political climate.