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croesyesterday at 7:46 PM3 repliesview on HN

Wait 5 years and your skills are down


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Ronsenshiyesterday at 7:53 PM

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.

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dhamyesterday at 8:00 PM

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.

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Xenoamorphousyesterday at 9:24 PM

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