[bnchrch]

Well said. This sums up my own feeling. I joined this craft and love this craft for the simple ability to build beautiful and useful things.

This new world makes me more effective at it.

And this new world doesn’t prevent me from crafting elegant architectures either.

[croes]

Wait 5 years and your skills are down

[Ronsenshi]

I don't think 5 years is necessary. I think after two years of this agentic orchestration if you rarely touch code yourself skill will degrade to the point they won't be able to write anything non-trivial without assistance.

[shimman]

It won't be 5 years, it'll be less than a year. When you don't exercise, your muscles atrophy. It's the same for any other skill. I use to speak conversational french in college, fast forward 10 years later and my understanding is no different than a casual "Emily in Paris" fan.

It'll be the same here, the only question is if those that do exercise will be able to command better salaries. I think this is possible but not with the current political climate.

[Xenoamorphous]

In 5 years coding skills will matter as much as being able to operate an elevator. (sadly)

[dham]

What infrastructure has gone through the last 15 years would like a word.

Half the people I work with can't do imperative jQuery interfaces. So what I guess. I can't code assembly.