Ken Byrd @kenbyrd
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"Do not learn to code" is the worst career advice of the decade. People are telling college students to skip Computer Science because AI will just automate it all. Andrew Ng just killed this myth at Stanford with a brilliant analogy. When he tried to generate images with Midjourney, he typed: "make pretty pictures of robots" and got garbage. His collaborator, however, understood Art History. He knew the exact vocabulary of lighting, genre, and palette. He spoke the "language of art," and generated masterpieces. Andrew Ng is seeing the exact same thing happen in software engineering right now. AI didn't replace the need to understand Computer Science. It made Computer Science the required vocabulary to control the AI. If you don't understand how computers actually work, you are just typing "make a pretty app" into Cursor and shipping fragile, unscalable logic. Here is Andrew Ng's exact hiring hierarchy today: Level 1: 10 years of experience, but codes by hand (He won't hire them). Level 2: Fresh college grad, but highly fluent in AI-assisted coding (He hires them over the 10-year veteran). Level 3 (God Tier): Deeply understands CS fundamentals AND uses AI-assisted coding. When humanity went from punch cards to keyboards, coding got easier, and more people coded. We are at that exact inflection point again. AI doesn't replace fundamentals. It multiplies them.
"Programmers will automate themselves out of existence." That's what they said. And programmers laughed so hard they couldn't respond. Two years into the AI revolution, here's what actually happened: What the doomers predicted: 1./ AI writes all the code 2./ Developers become obsolete 3./ Only managers and marketers survive 4./ Programming becomes a dead career What actually happened: 1./ AI writes code that needs debugging by developers 2./ Developers spend more time reviewing AI output than writing from scratch 3./ The skill gap between good and bad developers got WIDER, not narrower 4./ Demand for senior developers who understand what AI can't do went UP The brutal irony nobody saw coming: AI didn't replace developers. It replaced the developers who thought AI would do their job for them. Here's the real shift: - Junior devs who learn to prompt AI? Productive. - Senior devs who understand system design? Irreplaceable. - Developers who just copy-paste without understanding? Already obsolete (AI just made it obvious). - Managers who thought they could skip hiring developers? Drowning in unmaintainable AI-generated code. We're not laughing because we're safe. We're laughing because the people who predicted our extinction don't understand what we actually do. AI is a tool. And like every tool before it, it makes good developers better and exposes bad developers faster.
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