Just yesterday I was asked if I was worried about losing my job because of AI and I smugly replied that us programmers will be needed even more, as interpreters. This is an excellent article as explanation I'll be sharing!

Another perspective may be - similar to how people were saying the post will go bust when internet came in with email etc. - but it turned out to be the opposite.

Maybe intelligence will simply become commoditized and programming/creating things with it will require even more programmers.

If you're still seeing people flipping burgers, you should be safe for at least a decade.

Bang on target! It's gonna take more than a decade if you count from flipping burgers era because there a downstream ongoing. Upstream will take more.

> Prompt design / learning how to talk to and communicate effectively with AIs is going to be the next decade’s programming superpower.

Just how programming was supposed to be the "new literacy"?

Well, isn’t it? Except we’re at Middle Ages/ early Renaissance rates of computer science and programming literacy. “The future is already here, it’s just not widely distributed yet” and all that.

You can still make tons of money by being a good businessperson and knowing nothing about programming.

I really wouldn't use the term "literacy" for programming-skills.

"Literacy" is not about being at an advantage. It is about having a disadvantage when you don't have it.

I think that's what was meant by "Middle Ages/ early Renaissance" in the comment above. In this time period, literacy was a rare advantage. For instance, in early modern England, literate people were not subject to ordinary criminal courts on a first offense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_of_clergy

Thank you.

It is alreay thing, I mean it is not once or twice when people have watced in awe when I google some obscure thing.

Very much like the current "being able to google properly" skill.

This is the precursor of how to talk to and configure a holodeck program.