Computational thinking will replace automation as the key job skill
danshipper · x · 2026-08-20
As AI lowers the barrier to systems thinking, the critical skill shifts to computational thinking: decomposing goals, defining inputs/outputs, and anticipating edge cases. Prompting acts as an audit of one's thinking; rigorous specification, once an engineering necessity, is now universally required.
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