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Have you noticed that the business model of training young people in the developing world to get (remote) software related jobs in the developed world has cooled significantly? Yes, that business model is being disintermediated by artificial intelligence (AI).
Also, have you noticed that adverts to attend coding schools or coding camps have reduced in volume? Yes, the fact that coding is largely becoming superfluous, as many coders in leading tech companies are coding themselves out of jobs, meaning that companies do not need a lot of them, coding pipelines will be affected.
See it this way: you have 200 techies to execute an AI playbook. By the time they are done, if they are successful, you may need just 40 people, because AI is now a team member. So, the coding jobs of today may not create a lot of roles for coders!
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Coding is the blue-collar job of the 21st century. The real deal is Mathematics, which my teacher, Mr. Aham, in senior secondary school, defined as the “beautiful science of numbers”, and the “pillar upon which natural philosophy understanding is built upon”.
Yes, building algorithms, and NOT coding, is where the sustainable opportunity will migrate to as AI revolution intensifies. I had this chat with Microsoft Copilot:
Sure – it is not yet all finished for coding, but pay attention.
Update: Just woke up this morning, and got many messages on the piece titled “The Trouble with Coding In the AI Era”. Please coding will remain a great career domain even as AI evolves, just as I concluded in that same piece: “Sure – it is not yet all finished for coding, but pay attention.”
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Human problems are endless, and neither AI nor any other technology can reduce or banish them. Which of the AI cures greed, stupidity or corruption? We seem to think that we are making enormous progress, while problems are multiplying. You cannot model creativity, you cannot model imagination; as long as you can think, your services will be in great demand. As the world gets dumber, the remaining thinking heads will have their hands full. Focus less on technology solutions and more on human problems.