The people who never learned to code may now have the edge in the AI era
mohbibi_ · x · 2026-10-08
Responding to the "how it feels to have never learned to code" meme, the poster flips it: people who knew nothing about computers still don't—but having sat on hard problems for hours pre-2022 is a gift now, since the will to endure without instant answers has become rare and valuable in the AI era.
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