alt Hacker NewsAfter we get through this slop phase, I think software engineering won’t be about code at all, if it even exists as a profession. Feels like the beginning of the end for the craft.
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mvkel • today at 2:12 AM
No way. It's simply another layer of abstraction. You don't code in binary, or assembly, or C, or vanilla JavaScript anymore.
Eventually "coding" will simply be prompting skill with the wisdom of architectural decisions.
That's also one way to describe what it's like to code with React et al these days, anyway. Component/hook selection skill with the wisdom of architectural decisions.
The meaning of code will change. Maybe it will get a new name.
Software hasn't been about "real code" (asm) for a long time; yes, this was a common opinion when HLL's and compilers were starting.