"The Skill of Writing Code Is No More": Devs Debate What Survives the LLM Era
UhGoomba · x · 2026-09-05
A debate over how LLMs have permanently changed programming: deep technical understanding of computers still matters, but the act of writing code itself is no longer a needed skill.
Counterpoints in the thread: an independent developer says his business survives because clients who tried building solutions in-house failed—if LLMs could solve anything from a prompt, he wouldn't have a business, so humans remain in the loop for now. The takeaway: rather than argue, start building toward the post-coding future.
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