Or will AI eat up all the software in the world?
Many people today are facing a dilemma: if you’re young, should you pursue a software engineering degree? And if you’re already established in another career, should you make a switch to something involving coding? These questions stem from a larger one: with all the excitement around large language models (LLMs), is it really worth learning to code?
Recently Google’s CEO stated that 25% of the code generated by the company is written by AI. Are we seeing the death of coding as we know it?
And these questions are not just asked by people entering the field. Several professionals whose job depend on coding are also asking them. Should they continue to invest a large portion of their life improving their coding abilities?
To me the short answer is: coding will still be relevant — but maybe not for the reason you are thinking about. Because I think it’s undeniable that coding related jobs will change a lot in the next decade.
In this post, we’ll see some predictions of the future of coding and some arguments in favor of learning a programming language. With this post, I hope to provide you with a fresh perspective on why