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Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI.::At the recent World Government Summit in Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a counterintuitive break with tech leader wisdom by saying that programming is no longer a vital skill due to the AI revolution.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So this movie is going to become a reality a lot sooner? 1-2 generations max, yikes.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Leave coding to ai? What does this look like? How does this concept work? any examples?

Or does he mean just let ai handle everything and they don't give the ai any input?? I am no programmer but this just doesn't sound right to me. As a regular user.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (6 children)

It makes no sense. AI tools will obviously have an impact on the profession development, but suggesting that no one should learn to code is like saying no one should learn to drive because one day cars will drive themselves. It’s utter self-serving nonsense.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Dammit, he actually has an engineering degree, I can't make snide remarks about business majors

Or can I?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Isn't this basically "CEO of AI hardware company says that more people should use AI"? Not really news, since you wouldn't really expect him to say otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Disagree. They need to learn to code. And be experts with AI tools.

Just like kids with a calculator.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use LLMs daily to code but the more complex the issue is I try to solve the more work I have to do to get it to actually produce what I need. I feel like at some point we will get to where UML failed…it will just be easier to write the code.

But I don’t like writing long Linq queries or Angular templates or whatever, it does that quite well (70% of the time it is 70% correct or so). So it takes over the part of coding I dislike.

So no just being able to write code might be unnecessary but that’s like 10% of my day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Writing single functions just isn't the hard part of programming in the vast majority of programs, the hard part is managing a project in a maintainable, robust, and extensible way.

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