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Lessons From the End of “Learn to Code”
Time to end educational tunnel vision
If you’re a computer programmer worried that artificial intelligence will take your job, don’t worry. The AI promises not to. Here’s the response Google’s AI gave me when I searched:
How lovely! I’m sure all you coders out there are reassured to learn that AI is a tool, collaborator, industry enhancer, and job creator!
Or… perhaps this is one of those hallucinations we hear so much about. In the real world, it seems like AI is more of a competitor and job destroyer.
Many tech companies are laying employees off these days. Though AI isn’t the only reason — some of these companies overhired a few years ago — it is a major contributing factor. The laid-off employees are disproportionately software engineers, a job that is vulnerable to AI competition. And many companies are openly saying that AI is the reason for their layoffs while some big shots in the tech industry are predicting a future in which no humans will need to know how to code. The bots will do it all.
Coding may not be a doomed profession, but it certainly doesn’t seem like it will be…
